Quotes About Silence

Te quiero, sí, te quiero: pero a medida de que te quiero se me van haciendo innecesarias las palabras.

Las mejores palabras de amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada.

Vendríamos de la mano, a media calle, solos, y no diríamos nada. Que lo diga la noche. Que digan que te quiero las estrellas, los rumores lejanos, la distancia.

Mi problema sigue siendo el Ser, esa cosa difícil, a veces intuida, pero siempre inefable; mi problema sigue siendo Yo, pero no Yo el que habla sino Yo que calla, desligado, independiente, liberado de mí mismo. Sin ti, sin mí, sin ninguno de lo que somos; un Yo inmutable y permanente.

Porque las palabras mejores palabras del amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada.

the disquieting hour before dawn when it feels as if no one else is alive.

All roads come to an end, and all ends are the same, trailing off into nothing; even an echo eventually will be silenced" (Kincaid 215).

è necessario vivere più a lungo di chi potrebbe dire qualcosa sul nostro conto, per non lasciargli l'ultima parola (76).

How soft is the blackness as it falls. It falls in silence and yet it is deafening, for no other sound except the blackness falling can be heard. The blackness falls like soot from a lamp with an untrimmed wick. The blackness is visible and yet it is invisble, for I see that I cannot see it. The blackness fills up a small room, a large field, an island, my own being. The blackness cannot bring me joy but often I am made glad in it.

Contempla la bellezza nelle cose semplici: il sole che sorge da quell'immensa, scintillante distesa d'acqua che è il mare; sorge ogni giorno in modo nuovo, come fosse la prima volta. <> dice nel suo cuore, perchè sente la fresca brezza sulla nuca. Ma più volte sente l'inutilità di tutto ciò, perchè davanti a lui si stende un silenzio spaventoso, una vastità, dalla lunghezza e larghezza e profondità incommensurabili. Il nulla

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

in his frozen sleep, no one could hear his screams.

But he did not ask, and his uncle did not speak except to say, after a few minutes, "It's time to go home," and all the way home they walked in silence.

No clamor, only the thick quietude of crumpled talk.

Now there was nothing to take their eyes from each other; and still, for some reason, they had nothing to say. They were not disturbed by this, but both felt almost the shyness of courtship.

In the embarrassment of having spoken all at once they sat helpless and sad, sure only that silence, however painful to them all and to Mary, was less mistaken than trying to speak.

You can hear a lot of things if you put your ear to the ground at eventide.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

Each of the women elaborately ignored the other.

Big Angel didn't speak, just beamed like some small lighthouse.

She had learned the greatest trick of the interrogator. Remain silent, and they confessed everything just to fill the chasm of silence.

Minnie said, "Better not to ask." "That's our family in a nutshell." "You got that right.

Silence. In the gardens and homes designed by me, I have always endeavored to allow for the interior placid murmur of silence, and in my fountains, silence sings.

Pois é": uma maneira tipicamente brasileira de não ficar quieto e ao mesmo tempo não dizer nada.