Silence Quotes

Silence stands between the trees, waiting for the wind's roar.

~ Marty Rubin

That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could hear as far into it as the faintest clink of a cowbell. In the mountains, what might be out of sight had never really gone away. Like the mountain, that distant bell would always be there. It would keep reminding.

~ Eudora Welty

I never speak in silence.

~ Anthony T Hincks

Silence is not a fucking virtue. It’s a disease—­a cancer that eats away at you and fucks with your head.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!

~ Tina Sequeira

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to listen to the voiceless.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Remember, thy own shadow isn't far from thyself; in reality, it always follows thee, even in complete darkness (and in silence).

~ Sandeep N. Tripathi

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

~ Robin Hobb

Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished.

~ Rebecca Solnit

She found herself too visible in silence, exposed in the quiet of reflection.

~ Tracey Lindberg

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha

~ Abhishek Kumar

Time will tell...Time will answer...Silence... and time....

~ Deyth Banger

What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the darkness, the eyes of that face, smiling too much and too long. Without a word, that smile coerces from you an old question: Was it all so useless? The smile pushes up at its edges, too rigid to be real. You cannot look away as it widens past all natural proportion. There is nothing left but that big smile. It is the last thing you see: a great gaping mouth like the entrance to a carnival ride. Then: the sense of being swallowed. That is the story; that is the plot of our lives.

~ Thomas Ligotti

The person who has read just a single book argues. The person who has read the entire library watches in silence.

~ Unknown

When asked, 'What did you want to say in this work?' he would answer, 'I've said what I've said.'This made sense in where everyone assumed music had a meaning - but where saying the wrong thing could get a person killed.-Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

~ M.t. Anderson

. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with others. I have been called the sociable hermit. Ironically, lengthy solitude often invokes a verbal avalanche when I find myself with a dear and treasured friend, or at a rare social occasion. . . . Solitaries, I suppose, are not always introverts.

~ Barbara Erakko Taylor

For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is relative to the world in which it is lived. It is unreal if attempted in fantasy--as though telephones and fax machines, the Internet and E-mail did not exist. (36)

~ Barbara Erakko Taylor

Things always happen as they should and when they should. Our intuition provides us with guidance on our true purpose. These messages come from the heart. We can only hear them when we're silent not through a cluttered mind.

~ Nanette Mathews

There was cruelty in silence, and isolation made it worse.

~ Jordan Dane

The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.

~ Parul Agrawal

Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.

~ Samantha Shannon

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable. Later he added, I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

~ Michael Finkel

There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

~ Laini Taylor

Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Still, the ten days were enough for me to see, as if peering over the edge of a well, that silence could be mystical, and that if you dared, diving fully into your inner depths might be both profound and disturbing.

~ Michael Finkel

Reading your sonnets?” asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. “How’d you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you’ve lost your eyes?” “Not yet,” rumbled the Ionian. Orphu’s great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. “Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all.

~ Dan Simmons

The Silence of the Final GoodbyeI knew you best from the silences,The time and space in between,The moment before our lips touched,The way your arms went up in the air before you laughed,The smile that we shared before we talked,The redness on your face before your tears,The sensation of your arms around me after you released the embrace.The look you gave me before you walked away,Nothing had ever been so painful,No words could say what your eyes told me,When I wake in the morning without you,It’s the first thing I hear…The silence of the final goodbye.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

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

If I didn’t look too closely, I wouldn’t see that Tiras wasn’t there. If I didn’t breathe too deeply, I wouldn’t feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didn’t move too quickly, I wouldn’t reach any painful conclusions. And if I didn’t listen, I wouldn’t hear the silence he always left behind.

~ Amy Harmon

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

~ Okey Ndibe

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

~ Karan Mahajan

And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story...

~ Deyth Banger

People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence. Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her.

~ Kent Nerburn

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sometimes, God’s silence is a challenge for us to act

~ Sunday Adelaja