Quotes About Silence

#1. I trail away into silence. I've just shared details of my condom use with my son's teacher. I'm not sure how that happened.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. As a mother, this was the most difficult prayer I had ever spoken in the silence of my thoughts, but in that instant I knew the greatest mercy I could pray for was not my son's safety, but for his death.

Sue Klebold

#3. SILENCE. The most loaded sound in human history.

L.J. Shen

#4. We have two lives;
The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

Alexander Smith

#5. Even the formal measure of the Seasons seemed suspended in the wintry silence.

Anthony Powell

#6. There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just ... I love that.

Sam Heughan

#7. The record changer clicked; another record dropped down. In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.
It was nine-fifteen.

Stephen King

#8. After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President's secretary, it erased portions of the official record.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#9. The silence accentuates the beauty of him. The beauty of this first boy of theirs.

Melina Marchetta

#10. What I am looking for ... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

Joan Miro

#11. And, in the warm silence, in the peaceful solitude of the study, Clotilde smiled down at the baby who was still sucking - his little arm in the air, pointing upwards, a symbol of hope and life.

Emile Zola

#12. The silence of an African jungle on a dark night needs to be experienced to be realised; it is most impressive, especially when one is absolutely alone and isolated from one's fellow creatures, as I was then.

John Henry Patterson

#13. The multiplication of evil in a society is a result of the silence of good people.It is wonderful to be good and no matter how good, its application is more profitable.

James C. Uwandu

#14. Then silence, and stillness, and night were
the universe.

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Archibald MacLeish

#16. Silence comes after everything. Everything is enclosed in silence. Everything is extinguished there, or falls asleep there.

Mathias Enard

#17. I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

Jane Hirshfield

#18. To rise, he felt his wings begin to glow. "You carry no babe." Silence, her shock morphing rapidly into fury. "An accusation of deliberate falsehood! You incite a war!

Nalini Singh

#19. Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.

Art Spiegelman

#20. There is a silence in empty houses that is unique ... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

Henning Mankell

#21. Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness ... There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn't that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.

Mike Yaconelli

#22. 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

#23. I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Ani DiFranco

#24. Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people.

Victor Hugo

#25. And how could I hope to sense God's presence when I continually broke the silence, frequently had uncharitable thoughts, and above all, constantly yearned for human affection and wept when reprimanded?

Karen Armstrong

#26. He is heard only when we hope to hear Him, and if, thinking our hope to be fulfilled, we cease to speak, His silence ceases to be vivid and becomes dead, even though we recharge it with the echo of our own emotional noise.

Thomas Merton

#27. When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Brand Blanshard

#28. Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.

Steve Tibbetts

#29. Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Kahlil Gibran

#30. The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#31. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Saint Basil

#32. Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.

Lisa Kleypas

#33. Silence is a necessary requirement for unnatural acts.

Kathryn Cottam

#34. If only you could talk to girls in equations."
There was a long silence, and then, eyes trained on the notch they'd created in the link, Wylan said, "Just girls?

Leigh Bardugo

#35. Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.

Terry Pratchett

#36. If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Horace

#37. In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.

Dada Bhagwan

#38. Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

Arvo Part

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

David W. Earle

#40. In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Loretta Young

#41. Sex & Money
The Warden of the Order of Silence
(Kensington: The Settlement Press, n.d.)

'...all the troubles of human life can be grouped under one or other of these words.

Russell Ash

#42. The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

John Heider

#43. Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. You could choke on the silence.

Chuck Palahniuk

#45. And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Catherine Bybee

#47. The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

Thomas Merton

#48. Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn't, people wouldn't work so hard to silence you.
Remember that.

Kameron Hurley

#49. Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak.

G.K. Chesterton

#50. Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#51. So still and silent that they clash with the crowd in their very immobility; standing noisy in their silence; harsh as a cry of terror in their quietness.

Ralph Ellison

#52. True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

Laozi

#53. Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

Anna Quindlen

#54. We walked the rest of the way to math class in silence, but it was the best kind of silence. It was the not-talking kind of silence, the kind that so few people seemed to understand." -Suzy

Ali Benjamin

#55. She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

Crissi Langwell

#56. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Simonides

#57. During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#58. Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

Alison Goodman

#59. Her echo is the only reality in his silence.

Gwen Calvo

#60. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage of acute loss.

Haruki Murakami

#61. Stillness fell upon them, as weighty as a promise. The two of them walked in silence, along the still,

moonlit landscape, and through the drowsing trees.

Debotri Dhar

#62. The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

Gloria Steinem

#63. Working efficiently while a movie played was second nature to her by now, more comfortable than silence.

John Darnielle

#64. Silence does good to the soul.

Therese Of Lisieux

#65. I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment ... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

Cybill Shepherd

#66. Silence is the space where man wakes up.

Rajneesh

#67. Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#68. Marriage is not so easy and, many a time, it is best to hold your silence if you don't want fights,

Preeti Shenoy

#69. The spring on a wound watch gets steadily looser, the torque grows closer and closer to zero, until he gears stop altogether and the hands come to rest at a set position. Silence descends. Isn't that all it is?

Haruki Murakami

#70. The other [picture] was a ruined village made up of rubble and cracked houses and trees raked clean of bark. Just looking at it,I could almost hear a lonely wind blowing; the palpable silence of a place robbed suddenly of life.

Ransom Riggs

#71. Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Katharine Hepburn

#72. It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

Cristin Terrill

#73. Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.
Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master?

Saurabh Sharma

#74. Silence rolled at me, in waves.
They are all dead, and you are free.
And you are blameless.

Joyce Carol Oates

#75. 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

#76. Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

Deepak Chopra

#77. She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.

L.M. Montgomery

#78. No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.

Marcel Marceau

#79. The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

Dan B. Allender

#80. To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

Stanley Hauerwas

#81. There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Jodi Picoult

#82. Words had failed us that night, and I'd welcomed the silence. Words had escaped me the next morning as well but in a different way, when I came to realize that I was married to a fisherman for the rest of my days."--Abigail Whimble, Return to the Outer Banks House

Diann Ducharme

#83. As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#84. After a short silence, he said, "We grew up together, we're in love, and she's going to marry me."
Quinn choked on the water he'd just brought to his lips, drawing everyone's attention to him. He recovered quickly, replaced the glass, and stared at Nico as though he were an alien

Penny Reid

#85. There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Plaster didn't actually fall from the ceiling, but it was close.

Jonathan Stroud

#86. Silence is better than a fabrication.

Tracy Anne Warren

#87. There is a place where words are born of silence.

Rumi

#88. Silence can hurt worse than mean words.

Shelley Coriell

#89. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such signs you can tell, for instance, what he thinks of his wife ...

Wendell Berry

#90. Sam." I felt like I was choking. Or drowning. Maybe some of both. He stopped walking, at any rate. "You asked how I'd know who you were."
Silence.
"I'll always know.

Jodi Meadows

#91. Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.

Frances Wilson

#92. Silence is the wit of fools.

Anatole France

#93. Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

Richard Rohr

#94. I would think of it with affection because of its scenes of fragmentary beauty, because it brought men closer together through their perversity and fear, because it enabled us to pretend that death could be a tender experience, and because it breached the long silence.

Don DeLillo

#95. Go to where the silence is and say something.

Amy Goodman

#96. And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#97. If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#98. Silence hung between them, and Maddy's heartbeat picked up. She probably should have played it cool, but why bother? She wanted him.

Sara Humphreys

#99. To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Claudia Black

#100. [W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.

Frederick Buechner