“The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.”
Source: After Dark
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes

“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
Source: The Quiet American

“I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what.”
In reference to being teased at school as a child for his looks, as quoted in Schnozzola : The Story of Jimmy Durante (1951) by Gene Fowler
Context: I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.”
Alta vendetta
D'alto silenzio è figlia.
La Congiura de' Pazzi, I, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 707.
“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”
Source: The Magus

“The best speeches are those that hurt your mind, not your ear.”
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

“An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.”
Astraea Redux (1660), line 7–8.

Sonnet, Silence; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”