Quotes About Silence

behaviors that will nourish my soul (doing spiritual reading, communing with nature, sitting in silence, listening to classical music, etc.)?

Si j'aimais une femme, la plus belle preuve d'amour que je puisse lui faire, c'est de ne jamais le lui dire, pour qu'elle ne prenne pas le risque de vivre avec un type comme moi

An angel passed. that's what the French say about a comfortable silence.

Il n'y a pas que les mots qui permettent d'entendre ce que l'autre n'arrive pas à formuler.

Du får lära dig att en viss sorts tystnad säger mer än tomma ord.

Take what you will from that story, but remember the bottom line: if people don't want to know about something, don't tell them about it.

If you don't like something it's okay to shut the fuck up about it and find something you do like.

WILL tries to speak but the silver tongue won't work. He is dumb with adoration.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Seja como for, a ausência de ruído é o melhor sinal da proximidade de um abismo.

Le silence, c'est la meilleure production qu'on puisse faire, parce qu'il se propage : on ne le signe pas et tout le monde en profite.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

He lived in the ancient house where he was born, at the bottom of a vallon in the hills, three hundred meters from Massacan, surrounded by a pine wood, the silence of solitude, the odor of resin, and the perfume of rosemary.

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

when the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, however rough, even if it should break them;

The air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so nourishing, so succulent, that I never went into them without a sort of greedy anticipation, particularly on those first mornings, chilly still, of the Easter holidays, when I could taste it more fully because I had only just arrived in Combray[...]

He sat there silent, watching their love expire.