Top 100 My Silence Sayings
#1. I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
#2. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it.
David Levithan
#3. I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
Umar
#4. An Act of Dissent is simply a way of saying, 'No, I do not accept this and, as my silence may be construed as acquiescence, I would like to make a small gesture to indicate that you can all go fuck yourselves.
Mark Thomas
#5. When everyone failed to hear my screams, you are the only one who heard my silence.
Akshay Vasu
#7. Dissonance, n.
Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.
David Levithan
#8. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.
Emily Murdoch
#10. I don't argue; I listen in silence with love. My silence answers better than my voice.
Debasish Mridha
#11. My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..
Hisham Matar
#12. If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner ... if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#13. You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
Gautama Buddha
#14. You can purchase my silence with torrid details, you know.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#16. I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.
Alison Weir
#17. Sometimes nothing is louder than my silence. I have
Alexandra Elle
#18. I was a shy kid and I was afraid what i said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever saud anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.
Joe Meno
#19. To admire me is to admire my silence,
Petra Hermans
September 5, 2016
Petra Hermans
#21. It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever sad. All the words. Starting from your very first one.
Colleen Hoover
#22. I recognized your good character.
Because of my silence, Petra Hermans
H. Koper
Petra Hermans
#23. In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
Bei Dao
#24. I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
Chen Guangcheng
#25. Brenna is my calm in life. She is my peace and my silence in a world that never stops talking or moving.
Lacey Dailey
#26. Arsenius the Great: I have often regretted the things I have said, but I have never regretted my silence.
Evgenij Vodolazkin
#27. Who never tried to alter my language, but instead learned to translate the meaning behind my silence.
Claire Contreras
#29. This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it.
Don DeLillo
#30. It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
Joseph Conrad
#32. People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#33. How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and satisfaction.
Barbara Hodgson
#34. I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#35. I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.
Ann Aguirre
#36. He let himself laugh weakly.
That's terrible, I said, stepping out of my silence.
Is what it is.
People say that when they mean something is terrible.
You're right. It is terrible.
Catherine Lacey
#37. I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#38. If you don,t understand my silence . How you will understand my words.
MINE
#39. I hear my silence talked of in every lane;
The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.
Darshan Singh
#40. But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.
Sarah Vowell
#41. My silence was reward for you saying something intelligent. I'm a firm believer in positive reinforcement.
Sam Argent
#42. Do not mistake my silence for lack of feeling. I have good reason to keep my thoughts to myself
Sarah J. Maas
#43. If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
Ravi Zacharias
#44. But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
Maurice Blanchot
#45. Silence consumed my whole life; it suppressed things I could never express. My silence was responsible for my family's happiness. Silence was my prison.
Natasha Preston
#46. I will tell no one what I know of the two of you. But I would ask one small price for my silence. (Damien)
And that is? (Rowena)
If you still believe in God, then say a prayer for me. He turned a deaf ear to my pleas long ago. (Damien)
Kinley MacGregor
#48. She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#49. When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to agitate me, and this agitation is what keeps me from evolving forward.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#50. My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
Anna Kamienska
#51. My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words.
Eyden I.
#52. My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.
Jill Shalvis
#53. My silence is not my weakness, I am conserving my energy to destroy the evil
Samrat
#54. I don't play the guitar. That would mean I wanted people to hear it. I just strum a few strings to make myself feel better. It fills my silence.
Annie Hughes
#55. I decided that in spite of my silence I would demonstrate and reproduce in reality the picture of the church that I saw inside my spirit
Sunday Adelaja
#56. I do not write feelings, emotions i do not write
After that day on love anything i do not write
My silence scream somewhere inside me
These are my Bloody wounds on paper,
words i do not write
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#57. Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Dalai Lama
#58. My silence was not a lack of passion, but an inability to even draw a breath.
Lauren Gallagher
#59. In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#60. I would be speaking even with my silence, because at the moment I am nothing but a single word.
Franz Kafka
#61. My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
Njabulo S. Ndebele
#62. To admire my Silence is to leave in my Silence,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
( Moppie Petra, Jan Goossens )
Petra Hermans
#63. My silence never means I don't have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#64. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Simonides
#66. My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#67. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.
Radka Donnell
#68. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.
B.G. Bowers
#69. Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
Jimmy Durante
#70. I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.
Joshilyn Jackson
#71. My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
Anthony Doerr
#72. I was at the bottom of the sea, the pressure dense, crushing, inexorable. Dead silence strained against my eardrums. The darkness was without reprieve. No mental adjustment could make it less absolute. It was impenetrable - black painted over black painted over black.
Haruki Murakami
#73. I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#75. My eyes always keep searching,
for something inexpressible,
above the far away sky.
I long to get lost,
inside the evening-twilight.
Silence always tickles me -
in a strange way;
I meet "me"
in the time between
sunset and darkness.
Khadija Rupa
#76. Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#77. When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Alice Hamilton
#78. My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full
Elena Ferrante
#79. I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.
Suzanne Collins
#80. My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this.
Tracy Lane
#81. Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.
Beverley Knight
#82. My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So ... you're black.'
Al Roker
#83. We drove ten miles in silence, the country road canopied in electric green. I pressed my head against the glass to watch the new maple leaves curling in the breeze. Every few turns offered a tempting glimpse of Lake Champlain's choppy waters.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
#84. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.
Lindsey Leavitt
#85. I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
Rachel Nichols
#86. My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Frank R. Wolf
#87. When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
Alanis Morissette
#88. Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
Marlon Riggs
#89. I called my wife up on the cell phone and said baby you aint gonna believe this, i go, we just hit a deer with the airplane. and there was a silence on the other end of the line followed by.. OH MY GOD.! were you on the ground? I said nope, santa was makin one last run..
Bill Engvall
#90. My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.
Rumi
#91. Today, love came knocking at my window. To share with dad such a confusing, yet wonderful occasion would be great. Still, I keep this to myself. Who knows? In the future maybe dad and I can share more than silence but not until dad allows love to knock for me at the front door.
Anthony Paull
#92. The principles of my works ... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity ... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.
Arnulf Rainer
#93. My lord, it is Patroclus, he is dead, his armour taken.. Hector is to blame.' There was a chilling silence, then a sudden intake of breath. Then a cry, low rising, increasing, then torn out of him, turned out of the depth of Hades... For Achilles, the only word 'Patroclus.
Byrne Fone
#94. The Jewel
There is this cave
In the air behind my body
That nobody is going to touch:
A cloister, a silence
Closing around a blossom of fire.
When I stand upright in the wind,
My bones turn to dark emeralds.
James Wright
#95. Silence had entered me.
It was like the night, and my memories - they were like stars
in that they were fixed, though of course
if one would see they are unending fires, like the fires of hell.
Louise Gluck
#96. All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique
Catherine Fisher
#97. I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.
Kiera Cass
#98. I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
Mother Teresa
#99. My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.
Edward W. Said
#100. My name," the boy said importantly, "is Stacey de Lacey."
"But that's a girl's name!" blurted Oliver.
Stacey de Lacey's face turned a dark shade of red. "Silence!" he shouted. "Stacey is one of those names that can be for a boy or a girl! Like Hilary, or Leslie, or...um... Anyway...!
Philip Reeve
