Quotes About Silence And Loneliness

#1. There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind.

Washington Irving

#2. Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing.

E. M. Forster

#4. You are alone,
So alone,
You speak back to silence.
People call it loneliness,
You call it solitude,
Different words,
Meaning the same pain.

Jenim Dibie

#5. She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.

Kristin Cashore

#6. Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.

K.L. Toth

#7. In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

Carson McCullers

#8. But the solitude in Ohio is different from that of most other places. There is a certain silence to it, a certain loneliness.

Pittacus Lore

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

Amit Abraham

#10. But come down. Come here. I can promise to give you this: an appetite for silence. Loneliness, and ways to find it when you need to. How to hold yourself safe, apart, tight to the lowest rung.

Kirstin Scott

#11. When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

Gail Honeyman

#12. Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much takes place within me each day that by comparison I find a paucity, a stinginess, a silence in people which drives me to excess.

Anais Nin

#13. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

Sherman Alexie

#14. The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

Hannah Harrington

#15. To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: Loneliness is a type of violence.

Jonathan Messinger

#16. There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

Toni Morrison

#17. In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die

Katja Michael

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

Cory Basil

#19. I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible to have been surrounded by people and never feel complete?

Katie McGarry

#20. Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Kobo Abe

#21. I yearn for empty thoughts and silence in my head. For someone to sit down beside me, to hold my hand and take away the cold sting of loneliness that creeps under my skin like an English winter.

Malia Zaidi

#22. You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath.

Virginia Woolf

#24. In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

#25. A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.

Rachel Abbott

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

Srividya Srinivasan

#27. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Benjamin Hoff

#28. Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

James Russell Lowell

#29. Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Deepak Chopra

#30. When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.

Vironika Tugaleva

#31. The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness ... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so ...
I don't know.
Just so much.

Kevin Brooks

#32. Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#33. I can hear your angered silence,
Taste your bitterness.
Now I smell your vengeance,
Yet see your lonely emptiness.
I am your broken heart.

Anonymous

#34. I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered. Was it going to go, forever, in an instant, from sunshine to shadow? From pandemonium to loneliness? From fierce anger to a fiercer kind of love?

Alan Bradley

#35. It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.

Amy Zhang

#36. Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens.
In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#37. The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

Sonya Withrow

#38. Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path.

Preeth Nambiar

#39. We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

Jewel