Quotes About Painful Silence

#1. The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.

Jeanne Birdsall

#2. My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.

Sam Pink

#3. Kumar was a man who felt in the end he had lost everything, even his Englishness, and could then only meet every situation - even the most painful - in silence, in the hope that out of it he would dredge back up some self-respect.

Paul Scott

#4. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

George Berkeley

#5. Silence came in two categories, quiet and painful, or quiet and comfortable.

Catherine Bybee

#6. Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#7. we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

Stephen Grosz

#8. The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Denzel Washington

#9. Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

Rudolf Virchow

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

Obert Skye

#11. We have learned nothing from the genome.

Craig Venter

#12. But silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say
to them silence is simple and easy ...

Maxim Gorky

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

David Levithan

#14. Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

James Cook

#15. I don't judge myself by what someone says.

Sydney Schanberg

#16. 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

#17. The sexual contact before this?
"It was the first time."
The woman looked at Rat again, harder. The silence was more painful than the words. What she had just heard went beyond plain immorality. It was ridiculous.

Graham Spaid

#18. After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

E. M. Forster

#19. Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#20. Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.

Anodea Judith

#21. You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase. Then,

Madeline Miller

#22. In this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.

Emily Dickinson

#23. If I didn't look too closely, I wouldn't see that Tiras wasn't there. If I didn't breathe too deeply, I wouldn't feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didn't move too quickly, I wouldn't reach any painful conclusions. And if I didn't listen, I wouldn't hear the silence he always left behind.

Amy Harmon

#24. If you can pinpoint the moments in social media that are really negative experiences, those are the ones you can cut out. And when you do, you recognize how much better your life is.

Kim Stolz

#25. First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.

Victor Hugo

#26. She imagined herself drowning along the tides of Sumendu Lake, down own into the depths of solemn solitude, splashing into the serenity of forever silence.

Ashmita Acharya

#27. The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sort
of silence where the absence is painful, when there's so much to
say, but nothing is said.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#29. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.

Adrianne Brooks