Quotes About Silence

The silent voices, unheard even in the twentieth century–the prisoners, the institutionalised patients, the casually abused–are silent in the historical record because they had very little influence over their personal fate or their city's shape.

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Many times information was most effective when it wasn't used. The same was true of any other weapon.

Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.

There was a terrible stretch of time in Einar's life - from the time Hans left Bluetooth until the day he met Greta at the academy - when he lived without anyone to reveal his secrets to. Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.

Après leur dernier échange, il était parti lentement. Sans faire de bruit. Aussi discret qu'un point-virgule dans un roman de huit cents pages.

Sólo el silencio puede sustentar el avance de los supervivientes.

Había un reloj que entorpecía el silencio recordando su presencia a cada instante.

Intentaba pensar en los silencios entre segundo y segundo, cosa tan imposible como caminar entre las gotas de agua en un día lluvioso.

El silencio sigue siendo el mejor antídoto para los desacuerdos.

Comprendía el poder cicatrizador de la belleza. Frente a un cuadro no somos juzgados, el intercambio es puro, la obra parece entender nuestro dolor y nos consuela a través del silencio, permanece en una eternidad fija y tranquilizadora, su único objetivo es colmarnos mediante las ondas de lo bello. Las tristezas se olvidan con Botticelli, los miedos se atenúan con Rembrandt y las penas se reducen con Chagall.

Parler, c'est risquer d'évoquer Charlotte. Elle se cache derrière chaque mot.

Le dictionnaire est parfois pudique. Comme lui-même effrayé par la douleur.

Bueno, comprendo: usted no habla. Es raro, habría jurado lo contrario. Tiene pinta de tener sus teorías. Quizás me las cuente después, ¿es así? Me hará una síntesis. Si tenemos tiempo. Con lo que yo he vivido, necesitaríamos por lo menos un siglo para este análisis. Un siglo incluyendo los días feriados.

An asana should be a kind of meditation in form or movement. Therefore, we should always put our minds into a sacred space of silence, observation, and detachment while performing Yoga.

growing. It's growing daily." He detailed the large sums of hush money

It is the Jews and not us that everyone is against," he wrote. "If the Jews would keep their silly mouths shut they could buy up the whole country.

silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.

Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.

He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that his dark words are coming out into the light and yet he is still alive. At once he storms the doorway that has suddenly opened for him in the endless corridor in which he has been bumping around for years; words spill out, cut off, confused, ashamed, squeezing out.

Hoe zei jij dat ook alweer, over de wrede keuze: de woordeloosheid levend en levendig houden, of onder woorden brengen.

Everything stops in her and sinks into silence. She drives slowly, foggy pictures painted in her mind. She has to open a window, but how will she withstand the rush of air? She can hardly breathe. She is frozen around a fragment embedded inside her. Only her heart is suddenly full of life, the only part of her that beats in excitement and goes out to Shaul, goes out limping, goes out hunchbacked, with Band-Aids stuck all over it, but goes out.

Het geheim van het succes is de geheimhouding.

il silenzio preserva la saggezza