
“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
Source: The Quiet American
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
Source: The Quiet American
“For rarely man escapes his destiny.”
Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.
Canto XVIII, stanza 58 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“To silence criticism is to silence freedom.”
New York Times Magazine (30 September 1951)
“Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.”
Sens-plastique
“There were grammatical errors even in his silence.”
Nawet w jego milczeniu były błędy językowe.
Variant translation: Even in his silence were grammatical errors.
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
“Not deep his sorrow who in silence grieves.”
Poco ha doglia chi dolendo tace.
Sonetti e Canzoni, Book II, as reported in T. B. Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 395
“Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.”
Source: Hymn (1730), line 118.
“And silence matched the silence under snow.”
Poem In the theatre; Quoted in: Tony Curtis (1985) Dannie Abse, p. 32