Quotes About Silence

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that's one way I've figured out hot to describe love.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word.

Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.

We shared a passion for words, but I preferred the silence of writing while she loved to talk. She

To avoid talking, we both smoked incessantly and listened to a greatest hits tape of Johnny Hallyday, the sonic equivalent of Ricard Pastis, a taste the rest of the world could not acquire.

as we heeded the call of the Katyusha rockets, hissing in the distance like librarians demanding silence.

Real talent was required to use so many words in two languages to say nothing.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

They send him away and no one ever sees him again. That's what happens to writers who put their names on things.

This was the silence my father encountered every day during his prayers, the silence that hundreds of millions heard every day as they beseeched God to say something, anything. He always said nothing, which hardly disabused His legions of fans. For someone who never said anything, God certainly spoke to a lot of people.

Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" I asked. Over the line, in the silence, the static hissed. "You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he said. This, too, I wrote in his memoir, even though I had not understood what he meant.

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

People had stances, they threw out opinions, they made ferocious noises, but decisions were often made in a flurry of competing silences, and what was not said mattered more than what was.

Voices Voices in my head, Chanting, 'Kisses. Bread. Prove yourself. Fight. Shove. Learn. Earn. Look for love', Drown a lesser voice, Silent now of choice: 'Breathe in peace, and be Still, for once, like me'.

Beware of the dog that doesn't bark and the man who says nothing.

Don't dig your own grave with your tongue.

Don't forget three rules for success : Never tell anyone everything you have, you know and you can do.

Don't talk too much because ignorance is greater and more dangerous than your knowledge.

Girls who chatter don't much matter.

Just stand still beside me and watch people, you can observe a lot instead of talking to them.

Listen with your ears, look with your eyes, but keep silent with your mouth.

Never give advice even if it is asked.

Our parents teach us to speak and the world teaches us to be silent.

People rarely discuss the things that trouble them most.