T Quotes
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“The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?”
“The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.”
“The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.”
“the silence between us
is not something
to be spoken—
only endured.”
Source: the void and the feed
“The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.”
“The silence between us was charged, a live wire I was all too eager to grasp.”
Source: Night Shift
“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.”
Source: the bell jar
“The silence between words often speaks louder than the words themselves.”
“The silence between you and me
Climb the stairs of grey dawn to
Find the lost lines of my fate
Hidden in your bare palm.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
Source: the bell jar
“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.”
Source: the bell jar
“The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.”
“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the end. Still, you consoled yourself. You were not quite at the end of the story, at that terrible flyleaf, blank like a shuttered window: there were still a few pages under your thumb, still to be sought and treasured. Oh, was it possible to read more slowly? - No. The end approached, inexorable, at the same measured pace. The last page, the last of the shining words! And there - the end of the books. The hard cover which, when you turn it, gives you only this leather stamped with old roses and shields.
Then the silence comes, like the absence of sound at the end of the world. You look up. It's a room in an old house. Or perhaps it's a seat in a garden, or even a square; perhaps you've been reading outside and you suddenly see the carriages going by. Life comes back, the shadows of leaves. Someone comes to ask what you will have for dinner, or two small boys run past you, wildly shouting; or else it's merely a breeze blowing a curtain, the white unfurling into a room, brushing the papers on a desk. It is the sound of the world. But to you, the reader, it is only a silence, untenanted and desolate.”
Source: A Stranger in Olondria
“The silence from someone you love is the loudest noise that could ever fill your head.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“The Silence Game"
Many have understood the game
and chose to remain silent…
They chose silence thinking
that their silence will save them…
Yet silence killed them through heart attacks,
without even giving them a chance
to scream at least one last time
to inform the world that
silence is much more costly
than resistance…
[Original poem published in Arabic on December 11, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
“The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.”
“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.”
Source: Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
“The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.”
“The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'”
“The silence is above everything, I'd rather hear one note than I would two, and I would rather hear silence than I would hear one note.”
“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.”
“The silence is constant. The noise is temporary.”
Source: Pittown
“The silence is death.
It comes each day with its shock
to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
and peck at the black eyes
and the vibrating red muscle
of my mouth.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“The silence
Is like moonlight
In one thing:
That it hides nothing.”
“The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.”
Source: The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The silence is so deep it hurts our ears”
Source: After Dark
“The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“The silence is the language and the diplomacy of the vision, where that can be the stupidity too.”
“The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.”
Source: Gray
“The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.”
“The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.”
Source: Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition]
“The silence itself becomes an empty canvas, onto which any fantasy can be painted. When every last Palestinian journalist has been killed, maybe there will never have been any Palestinian journalists at all. Maybe they will have all been terrorists or supporters of terrorists or whatever adjacency to terror is sufficient to scare off those who, in possession of something approximating a soul, might otherwise look upon such obvious assassination and say: This is wrong. Absent an act to describe and the language to describe it, we are capable of believing nothing, or multiple contradictory things, or anything at all.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“The silence joined the words we always left unspoken. Circling around and around until I was sure, the quiet would slice me open".-Lo Preston-The Wild Hunt”
“The silence just allowed the echoes of the question to play out in Nox’s mind, reminding him of his own unwinnable war against the never-ending tide of conmen and criminals. He was trying to clean up these parts, but every time he rubbed away a stain, he found another layer of dirt beneath. So, you could give up—or you could keep on scrubbing.”
Source: Coilhunter
“The silence killed your faith.”
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“The silence lengthened, becoming strained and awkward until it was broken by the goose’s imperious honk.
Swift glanced at the massive bird. “You have a companion, I see.”
When Daisy explained what the two boys had been doing with the goose, Swift grinned. “Clever lads.”
The remark did not strike Daisy as being especially compassionate.
“I want to help him,” she said. “But when I tried to get near, he pecked me. I expected a domestic breed would have been a bit more receptive to my approach.”
“Greylags are not known for their mild temperaments,” Swift informed her. “Particularly males. He was probably trying to show you who was boss.”
“He proved his point,” Daisy said, rubbing her arm.
Swift frowned as he saw the growing bruise on her arm. “Is that where he pecked you? Let me see.”
“No, it’s all right—” she began, but he had already come forward.
His long fingers encircled her wrist, the thumb of his other hand passing gently near the dark purple mark. “You bruise easily,” he murmured, his dark head bent over her arm.
Daisy’s heart dispensed a series of hard thumps before settling into a fast rhythm. He smelled like the outdoors—sun, water, grassy-sweet. And deeper in the fragrance lingered the tantalizing incense of warm, sweaty male. She fought the instinct to move into his arms, against his body…to pull his hand to her breast. The mute craving shocked her.
Glancing up at his downturned face, Daisy found his blue eyes staring right into hers.
“I…” Nervously she pulled away from him. “What are we to do?”
“About the goose?” His broad shoulders hitched in a shrug. “We could wring his neck and take him home for dinner.”
The suggestion caused Daisy and the Greylag to stare at him in shared outrage.
“That was a very poor joke, Mr. Swift.”
“I wasn’t joking.”
Daisy placed herself squarely between Swift and the goose. “I will deal with the situation on my own. You may leave now.”
“I wouldn’t advise making a pet of him. You’ll eventually find him on your plate if you stay at Stony Cross Park long enough.”
“I don’t care if it makes me a hypocrite,” she said. “I would rather not eat a goose I’m acquainted with.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.”
“The silence of a forest teaches more than a thousand lectures.”
“The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.”
Source: The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition
“The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.”
“The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.”
“The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.”
Source: Thoughts on Machiavelli
“The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...”
“the silence of God is not his displeasure but ur development”
Source: Discovering Yourself
“The silence of inner peace is better than the crowded chaos out there. Find the light in the silence, that light becomes the true destiny of your life.”
“The silence of many is deafening. Especially when our country is under attack by those who challenge the moral values of our Constitution.”
“The silence of metaphor accompanies the act of cruelty, as for example with the cannibalistic Japanese who moved directly from the metaphor of love to devouring that marvellous Dutch girl. Or the woman who made a present of her eye to the man who said he was so in love with her gaze. The effacement of metaphor is characteristic of the object and its cruelty. Words are left with only a literal, material tenor. They are no longer signs in a language. This is the silence of pure objectality.”
Source: Cool memories
“The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it”