Top 34 Friendship Silence Quotes
#1. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
#2. There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither of us felt any particular need to talk.
Alan Bradley
#3. To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson
Edward M. Hallowell
#4. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
#5. Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?
Benjamin Wood
#7. There's a thing in poetry called the caesura a pause between words, a silence. I thought: that's what real friendship is, too. Someone you can be quiet with. Someone who understands your mistakes and forgives you.
Margo Rabb
#8. True friendship exists when silence between two people is comfortable.
Nicholas Sparks
#9. Through friendship and love, you learn to attune yourself to the silence, to the thresholds of mystery where your life enters the life of your beloved and the beloved's life enters yours.
John O'Donohue
#10. We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.
Okakura Kakuzo
#11. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
John O'Donohue
#12. A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#13. True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Isabel Allende
#14. Some people will hear you louder in silence. Those are your tribe - they'll get you through the tough days and give you something to laugh about on the ride.
Nikki Rowe
#15. Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.
Shannon L. Alder
#16. Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies
Lisa Vanderpump
#17. Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
#18. I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [ ... ]
Stephanie Perkins
#20. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C.S. Lewis
#21. There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.
Jean Chretien
#22. We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory.
Marisa Calin
#23. Most often, their association was one of silence, but that is a thing of uncommon worth when partaken of in the ease of another.
A.S. Peterson
#25. They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.
Cassandra Clare
#26. Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
Norman Maclean
#27. What she most liked about their friendship was how much space there was for silence[.]
Naomi Jackson
#28. If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles.
Jamie Tworkowski
#29. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.
Anna White
#30. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.
Pam Brown
#31. I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.
Charlotte Eriksson
#32. I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
Anne Bronte
#33. We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.
Alex Flinn
#34. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.
Richelle E. Goodrich
