Quotes About Awkward Silence

#1. There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.

Carl Henegan

#2. I was like the runner-up to Miss Mediocrity and my prize was awkward silence.

Rae Mariz

#3. Ah," Mark said. "I see. Awkward silence."
"You don't say 'awkward silence'," Alex said. "You just let it happen."
"I said 'awkward silence' to fill the awkward silence. It's meta."
"I don't think it is.

Lisa Henry

#4. He nodded again and I was tempted to tell him the rule of silence: sometimes an awkward silence is actually far less awkward than forced conversation.

Christina Lauren

#5. There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

Obert Skye

#6. because I'm terrible at almost everything else in life. Take walking or talking, for instance, never mind attempting both at the same time. Or smiling. Or not being weird. Or not creeping people out. Or not being the cause of every awkward silence in a five-mile radius.

L. H. Cosway

#7. Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.

Cynthia Hand

#8. There was an awkward silence
Until I throw a rock at it

Cat Patrick

#9. ...my awkward silence default setting kicked in.

Sarra Manning

#10. Laughter has proven to be useful in other ways, too. It can make an awkward silence a lot less awkward, like when you're in a terrible marriage or an elevator.

Colin Nissan

#11. Adam had smiled at him and Max had smiled back. And then they both just stood there in that awkward silence that happens when two people are attracted to each other but don't know what to do about it because they are strangers.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

Stefan Molyneux

#13. In the most beautiful relationships, silence is never awkward, for it's
in the silence that we come closer together.

Steven Aitchison

#14. I won't discuss non-discussable things with her, like the sound of silence or the vertical dimensions of an awkward moment. Those sorts of things are best left unsaid, like the last time I told her I loved her.

Jarod Kintz

#15. We're sitting there, her smoking, me watching her smoke, and it's too quiet, so I do what I've done my whole life when it's too quiet. I say something really stupid.

A.S. King

#16. You'd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it's painful.

David Levithan

#17. Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.

Cory Basil

#18. I feel the need to fill the silence, like it's my fault it's even awkward in the first place.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

#19. It's that the silence hanging between us, the awkward and painful glance we share, acknowledges that I'm sitting in his seat. I start to stand up, but Ely shakes his head and gestures for me to stay seated. "It's cool," he whispers. I watch him stride away to the elevator.

Rachel Cohn

#20. Why do silences mean something different when we're with different people? With you, it's never awkward, is it? It's just silence. But with other people, I feel the need to fill it with inane ramblings. What's wrong with silence?

Holly Martin

#21. Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.

Michael Bedard

#22. The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark clumps while waiting to be stirred.

Rachel Cohn

#23. Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Matthew Kelly

#24. The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn't help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me.
"You are beautiful."
I took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed and didn't know what to say or how to react.

Nico J. Genes

#25. Leave a silence alone, no matter how awkward it felt. Invariably the other person filled it, often with something unexpected.

Kate White

#26. Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.

Robin Hobb

#27. A brief silence followed, everyone smiling with no direction, one of those awkward moments where families realize they are essentially a collection of strangers with a few things in common ...

David Gilbert

#28. Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.

Meg Cabot

#29. There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#30. They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts.

Daniel Silva

#31. The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.

Suzanne Palmieri

#32. Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

A. Lee Martinez

#33. Do you want to build a snowman~ Dongwon (Normal Class 8)

Youngpaka

#34. I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle.

Donna Lynn Hope