Quotes About Silence

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

Anna is something wrong " he asked his brow furrowed. Yes I want to say. You ran a prison camp for Jews. You keep my parents locked in the ghetto. You let your wife's father be killed and would kill Jacob too if given the chance. Your wretched Gestapo came to our house and now Lukasz might have to leave us. Let me count the ways. Of course I did not dare to say any of this. "No Herr Kommandant " I replied managing to keep my voice even. "Everything is fine.

for many hours. "He didn't

hesitated, knowing that he was talking about

woods in the predawn darkness, the silence only broken by the sloshing of his flask.

There must be a different kind of love, one I haven't felt yet, when someone looks at you just like you're looking at him and you don't have to say anything.

They were staring at the gleaming guadrangle as though awaiting an oracle's reply.

Girls like me assumed we'd be judged and belittled, we expected girls to be sexualised and then condemned for their sexuality, punished for both silence and speaking out, told we should accept responsibility for our choices and then called crazy or stupid or slutty if we didn't live by the rules other people chose for us.

Se la gelosia, come donne, poteva essere per loro un sentimento nobile, doveroso, tale da poter essere, in determinati casi, rivelato, confessato a qualche amica, la delusione, questa volta, essendo impudica e profana, era destinata al silenzio, alla solitudine del deserto in cui esse si erano trovate a un certo punto, così di colpo, senz'acqua.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

The God whom I know dwells quietly in the root system of the very nature of things.

un ruido sin ruido hecho de mil murmullos indistintos.

Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Un livre est un peu de silence entre les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit calme. Celui qui le lit ne rompt pas le silence.

This is the hour of silence. In no way does silence mean lack of sound: it means a state in which the ear is the most alert.

Os homens desesperados vivem pendurados no espaço à maneira das figuras pintadas nas paredes, sem respirar, sem falar, sem escutar ninguém.

Certains animaux connaissent des extases peut-être plus puissantes ontologiquement à partir de leur silence et au sein de leur appartenance au milieu, que nous-mêmes à partir du langage et dans notre désappartenance progressive encore qu'intermittente à la nature. Certains cerfs d'automne pris dans leur brume sont plus au courant de l'intrigue originelle que les dieux.

Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I've ever known was brought up on that saying.

We sat in good silence, for me relieved silence, watching the thick rush-hour traffic and the jammed streetcars -- all leaving us behind, leaving me feeling cast off and useless, remembering when I too hate somewhere to go, something to do.

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound.

Whanne she was gone the kynge was glad for she made suche a noyse,

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.

Jesus said, "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.