Quotes About Silence

I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.[...] I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.

Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.

Final warning. Shut up or die.

He didn't talk about his painful past. Ever. With anyone.

Paris had its sweetest smell, the smell of chestnut trees in bloom and of petrol with a few grains of dust that crack under your teeth like pepper. In the darknes the danger seemed to grow. You could smell the suffering in the air, in the silence. Everyone looked at their house and thought, "Tomorrow it will be in ruins, tomorrow I'l have nothing left.

Women in London must have learned not to breathe

The Rape of Nanking did not penetrate the world consciousness in the same manner as the Holocaust or Hiroshima because the victims themselves had remained silent.

He stopped. "You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you

the mate. "Next time." She didn't answer as she turned

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world.

A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

The tedium is the cornerstone of the stability of their relationship, and the fact that they have nothing to say to each other means that they feel no uneasiness about each other.

In der Luft zitterte noch Schreien, man hörte es nicht mehr, man sah es nur noch. Wir sahen und fühlten es alle und waren für eine Sekunde vereint in Trauer und Angst. Denn es war getötet worden, und wir sind dabei gewesen.

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

If you talk about it, you probably won't write it

Speaking of silence, we can't help talking about me, the past master of this genre.