Quotes About Silence

He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.

he walks into the hall and the old walls there settle into place all around him and say something to him, the same way they always have, he thinks, it's always like that, whether he notices it and thinks about it or not the walls are there, and it is as if silent voices are speaking from them, as if a big tongue is there in the walls and this tongue is saying something that can never be said with words ...

Silent they sat, James aware of her agitation but puzzled as to the cause, Agatha aware of his puzzlement but not trusting her voice to put him at ease. She was trying to control a strange commotion in her breast, a kind of flutter or tremor caused by his invitation to Ireland.

Embody what you most want to impart, and keep your mouth shut.

Every time you get a strong impulse to talk about meditation and how wonderful it is, or how hard it is, or what it's doing for you these days, or what it's not, or you want to convince someone else how wonderful it would be for them, just look at it as more thinking and go meditate some more. The impulse will pass and everybody will be better off—especially you.

When you silence your mind, faith walks in.

Some memories are meant for not to be said, either they are too Scary to tell, or we love them that much, that we can't explain those in oral words.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

Silence is one of many forms of prayer.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.