It is in Silence we hear the voice of Truth. The temples and the marts of men echo all night and day to the clamour of lies and shams and quackeries. But in Silence falsehood cannot live. You cannot float a lie on Silence. A lie has to be puffed aloft, and kept from falling by men's breath. Leave a lie on the bosom of Silence, and it sinks. A truth floats there fair and stately, like some stout ship upon a deep ocean. Silence buoys her up lovingly for all men to see.英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
Silence is the only real thing we can lay hold of in this world of passing dreams. Time is a shadow that will vanish with the twilight of humanity; but Silence is a part of the eternal. All things that are true and lasting have been taught to men's hearts by Silence.英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
Challoner, long since satisfied that all was well, goes by no more. Silence has settled upon the hotel; - that heavy silence which precedes the dawn. There was silence in the streets also. The few who were abroad, crept quietly along. An electric storm was in the air and the surcharged clouds hung heavy and low, biding the moment of outbreak. A man who had left a place of many shadows for the more open road, paused and looked up at these clouds; then went calmly on. Suddenly the shriek of an approaching train tears through the valley. Has it a call for this man?英文原著 · 《Initials Only》
Two years! The body has been in the ground two years. It is worn away; it is clay to clay. Where the heart moulders, a greenish dust, the stake is thrust. Late August it is, and night; a night flauntingly jewelled with stars, a night of shooting stars and loud insect noises. Down the road to Tilbury, silence -- and the slow flapping of large leaves. Down the road to Sutton, silence -- and the darkness of heavy-foliaged trees. Down the road to Wayfleet, silence -- and the whirring scrape of insects in the branches.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
And silence, silence, silence found me. I felt the unfaltering movement creep Among the leaves. They shed around me Calm clouds of scent, that I did weep; And stroked my face. I fell asleep.英文原著 · 《Poems of Rupert Brooke》
Oh, what if a sound should be made! Oh, what if a bound should be laid To this bow-and-string tension of beauty and silence a-spring, -- To the bend of beauty the bow, or the hold of silence the string! I fear me, I fear me yon dome of diaphanous gleam Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in a dream, -- [91] Yon dome of too-tenuous tissues of space and of night, Over-weighted with stars, over-freighted with light, Over-sated with beauty and silence, will seem But a bubble that broke in a dream, If a bound of degree to this grace be laid, Or a sound or a motion made.英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
Under these circumstances, honor doesn't demand silence or self-harm.美剧 · 《Billions》
Then maybe he'll suggest that you pay him, for his silence.美剧 · 《Billions》
Times of tragedy call for silence and sustenance.美剧 · 《Billions》
And what I want to add is-- Times of tragedy call for silence and-- Well, we will all miss Black Jack.美剧 · 《Billions》