Quotes About Silence

The philosopher speaks, but this is a weakness in him, and an inexplicable weakness: he should keep silent, coincide in silence, and rejoin in Being a philosophy that is there ready-made. But yet everything comes to pass as though he wished to put into words a certain silence he hearkens to within himself. His entire "work" is this absurd effort. He wrote in order to state his contact with Being; he did not state it, and could not state it, since it is silence. Then he recommences.. . .

There is a world of silence, the perceived world, at least, is an order where there are non-language significations--yes, non-language significations, but they are not accordingly positive. There is for example no absolute flux of singular Erlebnisse; there are fields and a field of fields, with a style and a typicality...and which are always a relation between the agent (I can) and the sensorial or ideal field.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

El silencio es el verdadero crimen de lesa humanidad.

En el silencio mandan los ruidos.

Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.

he had said it in such a manner that they were fairly certain he would never make what he had done a subject of boasting. There

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...

Es gibt allerlei Arten, einen Menschen zu morden oder wenigstens seine Seele, und das merkt keine Polizei der Welt. Dann genügt ein Wort, eine Offenheit im rechten Augenblick. Dann genügt ein Lächeln. Ich möchte den Menschen sehen, der nicht durch Lächeln umzubringen ist oder durch Schweigen.

Where silence is, man is observed by silence. Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence. Man does not put silence to the test; silence puts man to the test.

He must be stilled in order to create that deep repose of the soul in which alone the word of God can be heard. Of

It is somewhat too convenient to demonstrate one's courage in taking a stand where the audience and possible opponents are condemned to silence.

She was one of the stars, a bright dot in blackness, without home, without a companion, in eternal cold and silence.

Something went crabwiseacross the snow this morning.

This thing that men call justice, this blind snake that strikes men down in the dark, mindless with fury, keep your hand back from it, pass by in silence.

There is no god but death.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything," said Henry Ward Beecher.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

I'm two eyes looking out of a suit of armor. I write because I can't talk.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

My parents' silences about many things alarmed me. They made me aware of invisible lines that I couldn't see that they drew between themselves and the rest of the world. I never knew when that line might be drawn to exclude me.

Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što pre?utiš.

Najmanje se govori kad te se najviše ti?e.