Quotes About Silence

Intimacy isn't something men talk about.

intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

En contra de la idea establecida, La palabra no crea un mundo; El hombre habla como ladra el perro, Para expresar su ira o su temor. El placer es silencioso, Igual que ser feliz.

Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them less and less. ... ...in fact the media's attitude had changed over the last few months. No one talked about violence in the banlieues or race riots anymore. That was all passed over in silence.

Man sollte keinen Sinn in Dingen suchen, die keinen haben", womit er sich, ohne sich dessen wirklich bewusst zu sein, die Schlussfolgerung von Wittgensteins Tractatus zu eigen machte: "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

Precious is sleep, better to be of stone, while the oppression and the shame still last; not seeing and not hearing, I am blest; so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.

Se duc genii si durere, mor cuvinte si placere, generatii sub tacere, fum in vant, sub soare umbra.

Caro m'è 'l sonno, e più l'esser di sasso, mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura; non veder, non sentir m'è gran ventura; però non mi destar, deh, parla basso.

Bana sevgili olan uykudur bir güzelden daha güzel olan bu kadar ac? ve utanç doluyken içim ne büyük ?ans kapanmas? kulaklar?m?n ve gözlerimin bu yüzden f?s?lt? ile konu?un huzurumu bozmay?n benim.

ask yourself, what would babbi do? waht WWBD? You know, the famous line in the movie Bambi if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

When it comes to men, it's often easier done than said.

All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed, and weeks, and no one said her name.

lack of affirmation from the men in our lives can make us die inside quietly, unable to feel, to respond, to even voice our pain.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

it doesn't make sense." He is frustrated. "It doesn't have to," I tell him. "You must simply learn the rules and obey." "Is that what liberty means?" he asks earnestly. The three of us are silent. "No," I say. "That is what tyranny means.

Une ombre attaquera la forêt, et nul ne pourra s'y opposer. Alors viendra Celui-qui-Ecoute. Son arme, c'est l'air ; et son langage le silence.

Yesterday, I was in Hatchards, and I saw a photograph of it, the usual view from Darjeeling. Everything flooded back. The cold. The silence. The dread. It was so overwhelming that I staggered outside and vomited in the gutter. People thought I was drunk.

It melted into the shadows. It had left no tracks; only a branch,

The most important stuff, what was closest to the bone, was just what you never talked about. There were no words for it...The trivial and silly is what you spend your day chatting about. You could ask your friends how they liked your hair, but you could never ask them what you really wanted to know: Is there hope for me, yes or no?

He had died in silence as he had lived,' wrote expedition photographer Mario Fantin, 'almost tip-toeing out of life in order not to disturb the people in the tent next to him.'1

in silence we all shared the same sorrow and memories.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

Miguel de Cervantes