Quotes About Silence

La verdadera brevedad es saber callar cuando no hay nada que decir.

No hay nadie que no se lleve un secreto a la tumba, y no hay mayor gloria para un secreto que morir sin haber sido desvelado. La sinceridad, llevada al fanatismo, solo puede conducir a la destrucción.

Y de mis autores más queridos, a los que vengo leyendo y releyendo desde hace tantos años? ¿Qué podría decir yo de Cervantes, de Kafka, de Shakespeare, de Dickens, de Faulkner, de Conrad, de Chéjov, de Borges, de Quevedo...? Apenas nada. Ni siquiera me he parado a pensar en ello.

La gente lee en silencio, se mueve en silencio, hasta parece hablar en silencio

If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place. Abusers interpret silence as approval, or at least as forgiveness. To abused women, meanwhile, the silence means that no one will help—just what her partner wants her to believe. Anyone who chooses to quietly look the other way therefore unwittingly becomes the abuser's ally.

If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

It was easier to talk about nothing than something. Because something was too terrible to discuss. Too dark and terrible to even think about.

Silence is a profound teacher and a hard taskmaster. Learn her art when it is offered; there is much to hear within her temple!

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

The Busy Road" I am so used to it by now that when the traffic falls silent, I think a storm is coming.

But near the end of the hour I was also telling him how face-to-face with another person I couldn't speak. There was always a wall.

The Outing An outburst of anger near the road, a refusal to speak on the path, a silence in the pine woods, a silence across the old railroad bridge, an attempt to be friendly in the water, a refusal to end the argument on the flat stones, a cry of anger on the steep bank of dirt, a weeping among the bushes.

suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.

Às vezes o silêncio é muito mais convincente do que a palavra.

Foi descendo a escada, evitando despertar os degraus.

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

Langton, believing Anna's silence was due to distress about

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Today Mrs. Beasley began by clearing her throat. Again, this isn't a worrisome sign. Librarians are not overly talkative so our throats can get froggy from lack of use.

The prophet Habakkuk lived in a time that was much like ours. He, too, asked Hashem, 'Why do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?' And you know Hashem's reply as well as I do: 'The righteous shall live by his faith.

quiet. Did she dare to imagine a future that didn't

Hashem may not answer our prayers the way we want him to," he said, clearing his throat. "He did not deliver Joseph from prison right away. But Hashem was there with Joseph, even in hype silence

I wanted to stand up and shout that this was unfair, but loud voices were not permitted in the library.