Silence Quotes

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

They heard a lullaby every time a part of her died in Silence.

~ Akshay Vasu

God whispered, You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The more you hide, the higher the walls around you gets. The more you cry in silence, the thicker it becomes.

~ Akshay Vasu

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

There are some silences that are so huge, and fraught, and haunted, and weighed, and shocked, that they just are; there's nothing you can say about them that makes any sense. All you can do is witness them, and feel some deep ache that such things arrive, and must be endured, with wordless aching all around.

~ Brian Doyle

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

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

~ Frederick Barthelme

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

~ Carl Sandburg

And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.

~ Anna Akhmatova

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

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

~ Mitch Albom

The elders say- difficult to prove- that winged creatures also dream. The birds are lovers of heights, always searching out landing spots, never constant here at the foot of the human race. 'It's that they discovered a magical advantage...' they say, 'the sound of silence.'At the foot of the clouds the raindrops come earlier, it's true, and the silence of the sky is something unattainable for those who don't fly- we have never experimented. The dream of the birds was that man of them headed for a land where they experienced a similar magic to that lived by them.In the final analysis, music is the only human sound similar to that of silence.

~ Ondjaki

As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud.

~ Lauren Oliver

Any form of art can be known only in deep silence, to be in silence is to be receptive - No sooner you become receptive, you become woman, it has nothing to do with gender, its a quality, which is why woman is epitome of Receptivity!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I'd wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, and though I told myself the reason for my attention was because she was as dedicated a musician as I was and that she was cute, the truth was that I also wanted to understand what she heard in the silence.

~ Gayle Forman

They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

If silence is to be broken, let it be with the majesty of music.

~ Mark Hewer

Your mind has a flood of questions.There is but one teacherWho can answer them.Who is that teacher?Your silence-loving heart.

~ Sri Chinmoy

The holiest of all holidays are thoseKept by ourselves in silence and apart,The secret anniversaries of the heart.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

~ Kahlil Gibran

I breathe in...the silenceof my own heartaching with tendernesswith memories..Of home.

~ Sanober Khan

There is a song in your heart, only you can hear it. In silence, that is the song of longing and love.

~ Debasish Mridha

I waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.There was a boy last night who I never spoke to because I was too drunk and still shy, but mostly lonely, and I couldn’t find anything lightly to say,so I simply walked awaybut still wondered what he did with his lifebecause he didn’t even speak to meor look at mebut still made me wonder who he wasand I walked away askingAm I making something worth while?I am not sure.I am a complicated person with a simple lifeand I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

my dear, I have nothing to say.my heart burns like the evening sky.

~ Sanober Khan

Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.

~ T.f. Hodge

Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.

~ Rachel L. Schade

the siren song/called silence

~ Steven Erikson

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

~ Fuyumi Ono

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Our distracted digital world is here to stay, so the question is more of how we can truly embrace the beauty that is the stillness and the silence.

~ Tony Curl

Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years.

~ Vikrmn

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

~ Vivek Shanbhag

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 Sáenz

Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller.--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

~ Tamara Valentine

A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the sudden ending of a tragic movie; the curtain closes and the people are still in their seats, numb and sighing their way back into reality.

~ Dan Groat