Silence Quotes

Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.

~ Anita Desai

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

~ Maurice Switzer

There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy....Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space....God may be speaking 'in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.

~ Terryl L. Givens

who knows your silence is screening some back stage trouble for me as I have spoken truth .

~ Litymunshi

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

~ Shūsaku Endō

The silence is becoming more poisonous and I have no one to talk with, not even my own self

~ Hilal Hamdaan

Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the eternal hush of the cosmos.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Silence heals nothing, fixes nothing, and unlocks nothing. Just because you don’t say something doesn’t make it any less true.

~ Mary Calmes

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

~ Francis Bacon

I keep thinkingThat poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence,In a secret place between two people,Almost always between two strangers

~ José Emilio Pacheco

I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.

~ Shannon Hale

And remember, silence is all it takes to validate evil and remember, indifference is all it takes to endorse it.

~ Adeosun Olamide

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

~ J.m. Coetzee

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don’t happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

~ Paul Auster

The bigness of the West makes men quiet, they seldom talk unless they have something to say.

~ William S. Hart

Ultimately, our questions must emerge not from mental categories, but from deep within the heart. They must rise to the surface of our beings as we sit in silence, so that they are not just the old questions which we raise whenever we have nothing else to talk about or just for the sake of argument. They need to be the questions which make a difference in our lives.

~ Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Never underestimate the effect of well-timed silence.

~ Bruce Rhoades

Best of the conversations are sometimes made in silence..

~ Danya Krish

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

~ Stephen D. Krashen

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

~ Anna Akhmatova

He grinned back at me, and I remembered how normal he’d made me feel the first time we’d met. Here, once again, he wasn’t bothered by my silence. And I suddenly realized what made me feel so uncomfortable about Elizabeth’s exploits. The people she attracted were drawn to the same thing everyone else was: our glowing skin, dreamy eyes, and air of secrecy. But this boy? He seemed to see more than that. He saw me not just as a mysterious beauty, but as a girl he wanted to know.He didn’t stare at me. He spoke to me.

~ Kiera Cass

It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.

~ Osho

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

The mansion was as silent as I wished the inside of my head could be. No noise – not even a ragged inhale of breath or a whispered word. Truly blissful.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

~ Tess Gerritsen

... I will keep the silence... do the same...

~ Deyth Banger

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

~ Paul Auster

A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.

~ Joe Hill

Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city.

~ Girdhar Joshi

At a stage in life, you learn to talk less. That is, let your works do the talking. Hence, work hard in silence. The evidence will be clear for all to see.

~ Oscar Bimpong

These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

~ Samantha Hunt

Contemplation in life is more important than bullshit. So enjoy Silence.

~ Eyden I.

Have we,” asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great ‘unknown philosopher,’ “have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that leads to the simplicity of men?” Let us wait in silence: perhaps ere long we shall be conscious of “the murmur of the gods.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Jack Miles's wonderful literary reading of the Hebrew Bible as a biography of God offers the insight that after the Book of Job, God never speaks again. God may seem to silence Job, but Job silences God. It is lovely that Job silencing God is part of the text (though likely an accidental order of the books), because it reflects a real change in the real world after the Book of Job came into it.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.

~ L.m. Montgomery

You don't have to say anything if you don't want to.Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas—a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

~ Jodi Picoult

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

~ Jodi Picoult

The room rang with her voice, then with silence. In the shaded darkness, silence had the quality of a looming dragon. It seemed to roar and the roar to reverberate, to dominate. To escape from it would require a burst of recklessness, even cruelty.

~ Anita Desai

We all were silent for a reason, maybe our hearts were talking to us, and it is a human behavior whenever someone is in a crisis or something great is happening, our hearts speaks to us. More and more, only that time because we are too obsessed to use our brains after every work every day that listening to heart becomes secondary

~ Shaikh Ashraf