Quotes About Silence

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Il ne dit rien de ce qu'il pense. Il pense que personne n'est solide. Aucun groupe. Que c'est le plus difficile à apprendre. Qu'on est les locataires des situations, jamais les propriétaires.

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Entonces nos sentamos juntas, en silencio, sin implicarnos la una con la otra, solo dos mujeres que escrutan la oscuridad de toda esa vida perdida. Mi madre no parece ni joven ni vieja, solo profundamente absorta por lo terrible de lo que ve ante sí. Y yo no sé qué soy a sus ojos.

In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

when you find out who your not allowed to criticize, then you will realize who is in control".

The patterns the whales used for communication, the three-dimensional shapes, as transparent to sound as solid objects, could express any concept. Any concept except, perhaps, vacuum, infinity, nothingness so complete it would never become anything. The nearest way she could try to describe it was with silence.

Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall; And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

Lo único sensato por parte de un crítico es permanecer en silencio frente a las obras que considera francamente malas, mientras defiende vigorosamente las que cree buenas, sobre todo si estas son ignoradas o menospreciadas por el público.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

So like a bit of stone I lie Under a broken tree. I could recover if I shrieked My heart's agony To passing bird, but I am dumb.

The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill. It rose in a straight blue garment, When owls began to call: It has grown wise-tongued by thinking Of a quiet and light footfall; But the young queen would not listen; She rose in her pale night-gown; She drew in the heavy casement And pushed the latches down...

We sat as silent as a stone, We knew, though she'd not said a word, That even the best of love must die, And had been savagely undone Were it not that Love upon the cry Of a most ridiculous little bird Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, silently and very fast.