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Silencing Quotes (page 39)

Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a..."
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. Rainer Maria Rilke
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial... William S. Burroughs
A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode."Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again. J. K. Rowling
The true genius shudders at incompleteness? imperfection? and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not every thing that should be said. Edgar Allan Poe
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, Lewis Carroll
As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was soothed with an infinite stillness. I got the world, as it were, by the nape of the neck, and held it under in the tide of its own events, till it was drowned, and then I let it go down stream like a dead dog. Vast hollow chambers of silence stretched away on every side, and my being expanded in proportion, and filled them. Then first could I appreciate... Henry David Thoreau
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head. Susan Sontag
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals. George Orwell
Haruki Murakami quote: "A gentle silence descended on them, suggestive of the flow of..."
A gentle silence descended on them, suggestive of the flow of time. Haruki Murakami
Paulo Coelho quote: "If he was the man she wanted him to be, he would not be..."
If he was the man she wanted him to be, he would not be intimidated by her silence. Paulo Coelho
Love - why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at 75 and her at 71, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over. Brian Moore
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence."
In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence. Chuck Palahniuk
There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir? Auberon Waugh
the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left, they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives. Charles Bukowski
Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture of his mind. For a few seconds he sat in stunned silence as the images rushed around his mind and tried to find somewhere to settle down and make sense... Douglas Adams

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