Quotes About Silence And Communication

#1. In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Edmund Muskie

#2. Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can't send any other way can be heard.

Phyllis Theroux

#3. There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Faith Baldwin

#5. If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system. I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

Bruno Monguzzi

#6. We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

Ruta Sepetys

#7. The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.

Tobais Palmer

#8. When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.

T.F. Hodge

#9. On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.

J.Z. Colby

#10. No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Eugenio Montale

#11. In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ?

R.S. Thomas

#12. Love is a loud communication between two and a mannequin of silence for others

Akansh Malik

#13. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Criss Jami

#14. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?

Tan Twan Eng

#15. If words are power then silence is superpower.

Rajesh Walecha

#16. The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Emil Cioran

#17. It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Tom Perrotta

#18. There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

Eugene Kennedy

#19. Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.

Truth Devour

#20. Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Emily Dickinson

#21. Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.

Brennan Manning

#22. The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

Bernadette Roberts

#23. Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

Bill Bryson

#24. Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly
when it's not called for

Meryl Runion

#25. In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

Andrew Pettegree

#26. If you listen closely, silence can be deafening.

Truth Devour

#27. Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. If one wants to be loved
and return it full score
dagger of silence
closes the door.

David W. Earle

#29. But they're too shy to speak when my mother-in-law doesn't; sometimes they open their mouths to begin, but they never get as far as the first sentence. You must get used to an ocean of silence, and just swim about in it as well as you can.

Edith Wharton

#30. Silence is also a form of speaking.

Herta Muller

#31. Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Pat Summitt

#32. Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

T.D. Jakes

#33. They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication.

Susan Cooper

#34. We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

Henry David Thoreau

#35. To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Marcel Marceau

#36. God's warriors don't avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say

Srividya Srinivasan

#38. A woman's silence is one of her most powerful forms of communication; it conveys emotions, so intense, that no words could possibly describe how she feels at that moment.

Amari Soul

#39. Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Eugene H. Peterson

#40. Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.

Vera Nazarian

#41. Silence (in a relationship) is never your friend. Communication is the pathway to healing and growth

Ilya Atani

#42. Silence can sometimes save you. everything doesn't warrant words.

Alexandra Elle

#43. when words make noise, silence can talk.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#44. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Isocrates

#45. Over the years, they'd become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.

Glenn B Miller

#46. I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Marina Abramovic

#47. Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

David Malouf

#48. When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

Minor White

#49. Silence is one great art of conversation.

William Hazlitt

#50. Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

Dexter Hawk

#51. Volumes are spoken when nothing is being said.

R.J. Torbert

#52. Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

T.F. Hodge

#53. It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#54. Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#55. Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich with meaning and deep, very deep. In order to understand it, we need to have a special mind.

Anu Lal

#56. A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.

Shannon L. Alder

#57. I love my loneliness as it helps me gather strength to deal with people.

Amit Abraham

#58. The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

Frances Densmore