Quotes About Silence

I reached Odell convinced that if I never spoke to another human being for the rest of my life, it would be too soon.

September 25, 2007 Paris To honor the death of Marcel Marceau I observed a minute of silence.

The squirrel and the chipmunk had been dating for two weeks when they ran out of things to talk about.

No te puedes imaginar la cantidad de años en que mastiqué en silencio lo que sentía, lo que padecía, con todos mis complejos. Hasta que entendí que deshumanizarme era salvarme.

We have but one weapon unimpaired and that is the weapon of speech, and not to use it . . . is treason to the oppressed.

He was like a sheep being led to be killed. He was quiet, as a lamb is quiet while its wool is being cut; he never opened his mouth. He was shamed and was treated unfairly. He died without children to continue his family. His life on earth has ended.

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...

There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

What a strange, wondrous thing, music. At last the chattering mind is silenced. No past to regret, to future to worry about, no more frantic knitting of words and thoughts. Only a beautiful, soaring nonsense.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face.

I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.

The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.

Was it as if a girl sound asleep, saying nothing, hearing nothing, said everything to and heard everything from an old man who, for a woman, was no longer a man?

And as we stray further from love we multiply the words, words and sentences so long and orderly. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

An effective method of meditation leads us to an experience of profound stillness, an inner silence that defies description. It is an emptiness that is full with peace, creativity and happiness. It is the natural condition of our mind beyond the processes of our thinking.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Do you understand what I have not said and what you have not heard in this room that does not exist?

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.

They caught up with each other's news casually, leaving long, cosy gaps of silence in which to go to work on their muffins and coffees. Jerome - after two months of having to be witty and brilliant in a strange town among strangers - appreciated the gift of it. People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two lovers, but this too was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. ~ on the comforts of home.