Absent Quote by Albert Camus

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there…

— Albert Camus

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

— Shane Koyczan

“Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of…

— Anne Carson

The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf…

— Joseph Conrad

“As The Preacher in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes puts it: All words wear themselves out; a man cannot utter it; the eye is…

— Harvey Cox

“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you.…

— Eckhart Tolle

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

— Thomas Carlyle

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity

— Anonymous

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

— John Heywood

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

— Heraclitus

The word of silence is such it says everything without saying any word

— Nidhi Saini

Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne