Quotes About Silence

the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" Merely this and nothing more.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

The quieter the mind," said Meister Eckhart, "the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

La pregunta final estuvo preocupando a los judíos por siglos después que Malaquías y los otros profetas desaparecieron de la escena. No veían milagros, ni intervenciones espectaculares, y no habían escuchado nuevos mensajes del Señor. ¿Se había olvidado Dios de ser misericordioso? ¿Se había tapado los oídos a sus gemidos? El Antiguo Testamento termina con una nota de desilusión, anhelos no cumplidos, y remota esperanza.

She stood silent among the quiet sounds of the night, and certainty came to her.

I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

There was a little silence. She did not seem shocked; she was neither flattered nor fearful. She stood, waiting for him to take his hand off her arm, and let her go. He supposed that men desired her all the time and that she regarded a touch at her breast, a grab at her waist, as a regular inconvenience, like rain.

And we hardly ever speak of her. It is as if we cannot bring ourselves to speak of her as dead, and we cannot lie to ourselves that she is still alive.

counsels. "And never tell anyone that you spoke to me. And be sure that I will never confess it." "Dear

I thought then that we would all die in the darkness and solitude. I thought that an executioner would come for us silently one night. I thought I might wake briefly with the weight of a pillow on my face. I thought that I would never see sunshine again. I was a young woman then, and I thought that sorrow as deep as mine could only lead to death. I was grieving for my father and frightened by the absence of my brothers, and I thought that soon I would die too.

What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others," the psychoanalyst

Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.

But I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

Est-il indispensable d'être cultivé quand il suffit de fermer sa gueule pour briller en société

Il vaut mieux se taire et passer pour un con plutôt que de parler et de ne laisser aucun doute sur le sujet.

POST Not a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret

The lock in the heart that shatters A thread of silk A thread of lead A thread of blood After these waves of silence

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something

If you want to silence me, silence philosophy, who is my love.

Orang bijak berbicara karena ada sesuatu yang HARUS dikatakan, sedangkan orang bodoh berbicara karena INGIN mengatakan sesuatu.

wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something