Top 100 Silence Sometimes Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Silence, sometimes my fortress, always my prison.
John Marsden
#3. Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
Mandy Hale
#4. Courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.
Elizabeth Samet
#6. Why was it that silence sometimes felt like a physical thing with a weight of its own?
Mary Balogh
#7. 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
#8. He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.
George R R Martin
#9. Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.
Jay Asher
#10. People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
Charles McCarry
#11. Sometimes silence is needed the most when life is so full of noise.
Rebekah Crane
#12. Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
Billy Graham
#14. Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
Pat Summitt
#15. Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
Joseph Addison
#16. Sometimes stunned silence is better than applause.
Jenny Lawson
#17. Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
Amy Neftzger
#18. Sometimes, I stay up all night reading book after book, for I have no family to object, and when I wake in the morning, slumped over a table or fallen off a chair, back aching, cold because no one thought to cover me with a blanket or tell me to come to bed, I feel very fortunate." Silence
Alex Flinn
#19. Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.
Ron McLarty
#20. SILENCE does not always mean 'NEUTRALITY'! Sometimes, it may mean 'consenting' to a wrong, sometimes it may mean 'condoning' a mistake and sometimes it may mean giving space to the wrong doer....SOMETIMES, we need to get up and FIGHT!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#21. I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.
Jordan L. Hawk
#23. Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all.
Sandy Fussell
#24. But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn't make you matter any less.
A. Lynn
#25. Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.
Roger Zelazny
#26. Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words.
Alan Bradley
#27. Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
John Marsden
#28. It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.
Carlos Wallace
#29. There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak. "Yes,
Margaret Atwood
#30. Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
Robertson Davies
#31. The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she was dead."
"You mean it felt good?"
"No. I don't know. It felt ... pure.
John Green
#32. I think we should always remember that reading
the experience of a book
is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.
Lloyd Alexander
#33. Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.
Jack Kerouac
#34. 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
#36. Sometimes nothing is louder than my silence. I have
Alexandra Elle
#37. A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.
Robert Breault
#38. Sometimes it's just silent ... No sound at all.
'Does that scare you?'
Chad nods.
'Why?' asks his father.
'It's like something's waiting.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#39. Sometimes self-assertiveness is manifested through volunteering an idea or paying a compliment; sometimes through a polite silence that signals nonagreement; sometimes by refusing to smile at a tasteless joke.
Nathaniel Branden
#40. It was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.
Lisa Kleypas
#41. You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the
stars are filled with your silence.
Sherry Thomas
#42. Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they are narrowed to the little silence between the beats of a heart.
Colleen McCullough
#44. I open the door to my cottage these evenings on a silence so thick it falls upon me like a blanket. Of all the lonely moments of my day, this is the loneliest. I confess I have sometimes been reduced to muttering my thoughts aloud like a madwoman when the need for a human voice becomes too strong.
Geraldine Brooks
#45. I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.
Haruki Murakami
#46. Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts ...
Sophy Burnham
#47. Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful.
Joanna Runciman
#48. It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever sad. All the words. Starting from your very first one.
Colleen Hoover
#49. Because sometimes all we need is somebody to sit in silence with.
Jolene Perry
#50. Silence can sometimes save you. everything doesn't warrant words.
Alexandra Elle
#51. Sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#52. The Gray Man stood in the doorway behind Maura, his gray suitcase in one hand and a gray jacket slung over the other. He set them both down and straightened. There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters a room.
Maggie Stiefvater
#53. I thought it would be quieter here." [Anna] hadn't meant to say anything, but the noise startled her.
"The wind in the trees," Bran said. "And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.
Patricia Briggs
#54. The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
Willa Cather
#56. You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
Wendell Berry
#57. Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.
Anonymous
#58. Silence is golden, but sometimes invisibility is golder.
Hazel Felleman
#59. Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.
Wong Kar-Wai
#61. Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Emanuel Ax
#62. Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#63. But God answered with silence. He did that sometimes, and Father Ferguson always interpreted it to mean that he should think for himself. Admittedly, it didn't always work out well when the pastor thought for himself, but you couldn't just give up.
Jonas Jonasson
#65. 'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.
Naturi Naughton
#66. Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.
Jodi Picoult
#67. When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.
Dot Hutchison
#68. Then occurred a rare thing about which men and women sometimes dream. They carried on a full conversation in complete silence, discerning feelings, plans, exclamations, jokes, opinions, laughter, and dreams- rapidly, silently, inexplicably.
Mark Helprin
#69. Sometimes I've thought of an island lost in a boundless sea, where I could live in some hidden valley, among strange trees, in silence. There I think I could find what I want.
W. Somerset Maugham
#70. Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.
Jacqueline Winspear
#71. Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad or you shall speak and speak how mad they think you are!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.
Joyce Rachelle
#73. Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.
K.L. Toth
#74. We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.
Nicole Krauss
#75. The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.
Wendy Doniger
#76. I wouldn't be satisfied simply escaping from my prison of silence; I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison. Sometimes I get that way. It's a surprisingly useful frame of mind.
Scott Adams
#77. I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.
Kim Ki-duk
#78. Sometimes silence become the most excruciating sound; sometimes the mind becomes a musical symphony of clouded thoughts, questions and clarifications but the vocals fail to present the sound of conversation.
Sumrit Shahi
#79. Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.
Jeff Shaara
#80. There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all ... there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns ... not even silence, just an end.
Michael Shaara
#81. Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act
Sunday Adelaja
#82. I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#83. I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice.
Anne Rice
#84. Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on.
A person's true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.
Imre Kertesz
#85. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
#86. Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Simone De Beauvoir
#87. Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.
Christie Watson
#89. Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.
T.L. Shreffler
#90. Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.
Patrick Rothfuss
#91. Sometimes the truth isn't obvious; sometimes it exists in the silence, in the emptiness between the spaces, but we're too afraid to hear it.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#92. He is remembering," I say.
"Remembering what?"
"It's a word I use for praying. Sometimes it's like waiting for music to come out of the silence.
Francisco X Stork
#93. But sometimes that's what it takes, a culture of silence to foster a culture of winning.
Fredrik Backman
#94. 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
#95. Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
Andres Segovia
#96. Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.
Thomas Hardy
#97. Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
James Altucher
#98. Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Faith Baldwin
#99. Sometimes I thought of Him as a cloud in the sky; ... sometimes as simply an enormous white light. Whatever the image, I would imagine Him close to me. And then I would wait, listening to my breath, until the silence came. And I would mutter: I give myself to You.
Ayad Akhtar
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