Quotes About Silence

Se temos voz é para vazar sentimento. Contudo, sentimento demasiado nos rouba a voz.

Contar una historia es echar sombras a la lumbre. En ese preciso instante, todo lo que la palabra revela lo consume el silencio. Solo quien reza entregando por completo el alma sabe lo que significa ese arder y esa caída de la palabra en los abismos.

Tudo o resto se passou em silêncio como se perto já não se escutassem. O amor que trocaram é assunto para duas vidas inteiras, abandonadas para sempre num barquito sem rumo.

Escre)ver-me nunca escrevi sou apenas um tradutor de silêncios a vida tatuou-me nos olhos janelas em que me transcrevo e apago sou um soldado que se apaixona pelo inimigo que vai matar

Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.

At this point, I think if you're being silent, you're making a choice and taking a side.

I hear noises coming from his mouth but they don't sound like words," Daphne said.

Jackson's screams were drowned out

Even Puck, who could usually be counted on to fart during dinner, was oddly quiet.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

The wind seems to be blowing through the gaps in the conversation like the rushing of empty space.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

Your namesake dwelt on this holy mountain three thousand years ago. He came here to listen for the voice of God." Elijah waited, knowing there would be more forthcoming. The wind rummaged uneasily in the grape arbors. "He heard it in a gentle breeze, not in rushing about the world looking for projects. Our vocation is a call to listening. To adoration of the One who dwells among us. That is why you came here. That is why you were born." Elijah

and hearing only silence, the heart must erupt in agony: "Where is God? Where is God?" And as the years of silence spread, while the ravager despoils at will, would you or I see the corruption of a child and not take arms? Or watch our lifetime's work erupt in flame at the whims of blind men, and not be tempted to reach for a sword?

None of us hears properly", he went on. "Every one of us is tied up in our inner noise.

That is where you are wrong, Mr. Zhang. Did you not know that our loss of celestial language is the result of our loss of celestial silence?

David dropped his eyes. In a low voice, he said, "One can be alone, even in a household full of people who speak incessantly.

Though the fear of what was coming returned to him a little, he looked upward to a presence and spoke with it and listened to the answering silence. He knew now that this silence was not absence or negation. It was the language transcending all language, and it crossed the void that man's will had made between himself and God.

You might think that, I could not possibly comment

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

The tires catch, the truck moves off, and for an instant there is a hole of quiet, a pocket of air without any noise, before the call of radios and televisions and bees and wind rushes in to fill my ears.

White fragility is the belief that even the slightest pressure is seen by white folk as battering, as intolerable, and can provoke anger, fear, and, yes, even guilt. White fragility, as conceived by antiracist activist and educational theorist Robin DiAngelo, at times leads white folk to argue, to retreat into silence, or simply to exit a stressful situtation

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.