Silence Quotes

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Try it on.It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing. He merely smiled.It has a slit up the thigh. His smile depened.Zip it up?Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up, if you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, I will track Scott down, and when I find him, it won't be pretty.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

You're staying here, Angel.You're taking this one alone?First, Hank can't see us together. Second, I don't like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

~ Clarice Lispector

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

~ W.b. Yeats

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

~ Diana Palmer

...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.

~ Alan Bradley

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

~ Pascal Mercier

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

~ Eckhart Tolle

I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing. ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

~ Strider Marcus Jones

Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

~ Margaret Atwood

….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It had been decided before she began. Nothing could be done. There was no point in trying. It was way too late. The inevitability of nothing was totally supreme, overriding everything. No way out. No way through. She could only accept the unacceptable. She could only endure the unendurable. Nothing was wrong!Nothing was wrong and the wrongness of this awesome nothing seeped from her. Some people, only a few, saw it. Some people, only a few felt it. Some people, only a few, recognised it and in recognising it for what it was, raged against it. Through the nothingness, these few reached out for her.She could not reach back. Through the nothingness, these few fought for her. She could not fight back for herself. Through the nothingness, these few cared for her. She could not care back for herself. Through the nothingness, these few spoke out for her, shattering the frozen silence over and over again. She could not speak out for herself…. “*I hope this may give some comfort to people who need it. There are good, caring people (whether outside or within yourself, if need be) and you do deserve to be cared for and supported as much as anyone else does.From “Nothing”, one of the short stories in “Fight! Rabbit! Fight!

~ Laurie Matthew

Let silence take you to the core of life.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

~ Marianne Moore

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

~ Richard Yates

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

~ Hillary Jordan

Silence, too, can be torture.

~ Justina Chen

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

~ Suzanne Collins

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

~ Sarah Dessen

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

~ Pascal Mercier

The silence was killing me.And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

~ J. Lynn

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

~ Muriel Spark

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

~ Erich Segal

Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silencedall trace of the world.

~ Anne Carson

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

~ Sylvia Plath

All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier. Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin for 'Silence gives consent.' When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us.

~ Roxane Gay

Do you want to change the world?Then change yourself first.Do you want to change yourself?Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

~ Sri Chinmoy

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

~ Madeleine L'engle

When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light.

~ Anne Spollen

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

~ Jean Arp

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

~ Tamora Pierce

Why?” he whispered as he leaned over her, supported on one arm. “Why must ye be the one that haunts me dreams? I’ve seen ye weepin’ night after bloody night since the day I sent ye from me palace with yer dress half undone. If I had it to do over again, I’d cut me own right hand off rather than hurt ye so. Will ye never be able to forgive me, Silence love?”“I already have,” she replied, cradling his cheek in her hand. “Long, long ago.

~ Elizabeth Hoyt

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in the darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.Where shall the word be found, where shall the wordResound? Not here, there is not enough silence

~ T.s. Eliot