Quotes About Silence

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

people with nothing to declare carry the most.

No matter how much I feel, I'm not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I'm gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I'll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I'm not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn't help anything. It just makes everyone's life worse.

If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words I love you so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said I love you without his ever speaking. The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter," I told her, and she said, "Then I would never utter another word again." "You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do." "Then I would never do anything again.

If I'd been somone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

creating a trail of things i wasn't able to tell you

As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad's last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.

I knew that we were sharing something with our eyes, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know if it mattered.

Being with him made my brain quiet.

I never thought of myself as quiet or much less silent... is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one millions times but never once into it.

Fish are divided from us by surfaces and silence.

A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other's. They were becoming strangers on top of each other.

How do children do that? Jacob wondered. Not only enter rooms silently, but at the worst possible moment.

I was not going to dance at our wedding and you were not going to speak.