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Quotes About Silence

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or man.
~ Oriana Fallaci
I don't want to hear about my death.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Il nostro rapporto non è che un contatto epidermico, un esercizio di sesso, una appagante ginnastica, insomma un dialogo da sordomuti.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.
~ Orrin Woodward
Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
~ Orson Scott Card
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
~ Orson Scott Card
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
~ Orson Scott Card
No rezo porque no quiero aburrir a Dios
~ Orson Welles
Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.
~ Osamu Dazai
Tahun lalu tak terjadi apa-apa Tahun sebelumnya pun tak terjadi apa-apa Dan tahun sebelum tahun sebelumnya juga tak terjadi apa-apa.
~ Osamu Dazai
I even watched in silence when my own wife was violated.
~ Osamu Dazai
It is only too obvious that favoritism inevitably exists: it would have been useless to complain to human beings. So I said nothing of the truth.
~ Osamu Dazai
My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no.
~ Osamu Dazai
We continued to walk without talking. I thought that from now on I will carefully look at the faces of women I encounter, and to some degree, the innocent, transparent beauty of Mabo will appear in all of their faces. Women have become womanly. But the change is not in the women before the world war. The new womanliness has experienced the suffering of war
~ Osamu Dazai
I also like to take my glasses off and look at people. The faces around me, all of them, seem kind and pretty and smiling. What's more, when my glasses are off, I don't ever think about arguing with anyone at all, nor do I feel the need to make snide remarks. All I do is just blankly stare in silence.
~ Osamu Dazai
I learned to read silently too. That's why I could finish one book after another without getting tired.
~ Osamu Dazai
As for love … no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.
~ Osamu Dazai
Göze batmadan, pek çok insan?n yürüdü?ü yoldan sessizce gitmek en ak?ll? yol.
~ Osamu Dazai
There has never been a single example of love without words in the history of the world. To stay silent because you really love someone is proof of a terribly stubborn complacency.
~ Osamu Dazai
But the true shape of love lies where one closes one's eyes to the embarrassment of it, and as if jumping into surging waves, screams the words of love. In truth, one can only stay silent if one's love is weak. It's egotistical. They're calculating something. They are quivering in fear about the responsibility that will come later.
~ Osamu Dazai
I wondered if in the end I would not be argued into silence by someone in good graces with the world, by the excuses of which the world approved.
~ Osamu Dazai
For every journalist that is killed, many other people are pressured to silence.
~ Unknown
Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
~ Unknown