Quotes About Silence

Ayl was a happy inhabitant of the silence that reigns where all vibration is excluded; for her anything that looked likely to break the absolute visual neutrality was a harsh discord; beauty began for her only where the greyness had extinguished even the remotest desire to be anything other than grey.

O certo é que os lixeiros são acolhidos como anjos e a sua tarefa de remover os restos da existência do dia anterior é circundada de um respeito silencioso, como um rito que inspira a devoção, ou talvez apenas porque, uma vez que as coisas são jogadas fora, ninguém mais quer pensar nelas.

At all these reflections of mine, Mr. Okeda remained silent, as he does always when I talk too much and am unable finally to extricate myself from my tangled reasoning.

Ne resta una di cui non parli mai.» "Marco Polo chinò il capo. "«Venezia,» disse il Kan. "Marco sorrise. «E di che altro credevi che ti parlassi?» "L'imperatore non batté ciglio. «Eppure non ti ho mai sentito fare il suo nome.»

We can prevent reading: but in the decree that forbids reading there will be still read something of the truth that we would wish never to be read.

Una volta sposati non si discute più d'amore e, quando si sente il bisogno di dirne, l'animalità interviene preso a rifare il silenzio. Ora tale animalità può essere divenuta tanto umana da complicarsi e falsificarsi, ed avviene che, chinandosi su una capigliatura femminile, si faccia anche lo sforzo di evocarvi qualcosa che non c'è. Si chiudono gli occhi e la donna diventa un'altra per ridivenire lei quando si abbandona

Cuánto reposo puede haber en la escritura!

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Grief does not always come out in tears.

She looked right at me and said nothing. I assumed it was because she was hanging from my every word, so I continued.

Our husbands decide without asking our consent, or having our concurrence; for, to tell you the truth, I hate this boat, though I say nothing." Mary Shelley to Jane Williams, talking about the boat that Shelley and his friend Williams bought.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Dodju tako ponekad vremena, kada pamet zacuti, budala progovori, a fukara se obogati.

Although the cricket's song has no words, still, it sounds like sorrow.

Ik vraag of ze de muziek af wil zetten. Er is al zoveel lawaai op de wereld.

There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow because they aren't crystal clear and perfect so there is a kind of gauzy layer between you and what you see. You could argue it's the silence of them. You could say it's the sound of the projectors that create a moodiness. But there's something about looking at analog movies that's infinitely more powerful than digital.

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

The shadows of the hills and rocks grew long in the valley bottom. But the guide didn't seem to notice. Sitting very still, his back leaning against the wall of the tomb, he had no sense of the passing day, or hunger, or thirst. He was filled with a different force, from a different time that had made him a stranger to the order of man. Perhaps he was no longer waiting for anything, no longer knew anything, and now he resembled the desert – silence, stillness, absence.

Is your speaking an improvement on silence?

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…. "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

Ian sat and listened in the studio, headphones around his neck, staring at the floor. That was his heart they'd just heard.

Summer was his foe with all its heat, noise, plump water, and bladed grasses belonging to the flowers, mosquitos, frogs, and twittering cicadas—little lives and little bugs. All he deserved was the silence of a chilling night, the detachment of cold winter. He saw himself as a dwindling man of winter.