Silence Quotes

And then there's silence. Though is silence the right word when, through the quiet, the air is so charged, electricity crackles deafeningly without making a sound?

~ Riley Edgewood

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

~ Jonathan R. Miller

Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

~ Richard Powers

Tact by its nature entails staying mum, prudently electing to forgo urging other people to pursue an alternative course of action. Creation of silent spaces in our own life and equitable distribution of periods of respite that allow for periods of equable inner reflection is necessary to spur personal growth. It is equally important to honor other people’s intrinsic need for periods of introspection, uninterrupted by unsolicited advice

~ 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 speak for the voiceless.

~ Gugu Mona

A pause gives you breathing spaceso listen to the whispersof the real youwaiting to happen.

~ Tara Estacaan

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

~ Richard Powers

(The Purge),... A lot of movies say that the silence is a deadly weapon yeah.... it's true!You, never know from where somebody is going to came out and how is going to came out.

~ Deyth Banger

You see an army running after you, every minute they become more and more you run as much faster as possible, you leave everything behind your back to safe your ass... and after all you are alone silence is with you.

~ Deyth Banger

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

~ Ravi Zacharias

What I want???I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?

~ Deyth Banger

And so I would like to thank you. You taught me, again and again again and again and again, not to dream of you. And I listened. I am silent. These words are not words of love, but of the silence that will remain when I walk away when this letter is done. I have listened and I do not continue to imagine our love, for it was not love. You were too busy walking a flowered path, and it was my misstep that I thought we had something more than an hour’s fun for you.Thank you, for clarifying for me what love is not.Love is no thing, and nothing is a gift, space is a playground, and time and distance are merely peaks and valleys in the topography of real love.And I would remind you: I am not one of your fans. For I know what I deserve, and it is one who is not afraid of fear. Love does not require this map: it makes its way across the miles. Love does not heed the time; it is not rooted in the months of one or two moons. Love is not bothered by obstacles—they form the high sides to the left and right of this rocky path. This path does not depend upon external signs: love will find its own way.

~ Waylon H. Lewis

To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it.

~ Syed Azeem Bukhari

[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.

~ Frederick Buechner

When the silence of the night becomes the chanting of poetry, the departure of con-cavity

~ Goitsemang Mvula

There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their memories, rewriting their histories, and imposing on them a state-sanctioned identity. Or the silence of witnesses who choose to ignore or not speak the truth, and of victims who at times become complicit in the crimes committed against them. Then there are the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives.

~ Azar Nafisi

When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Volumes are spoken when nothing is being said.

~ R.j. Torbert

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

~ David Grossman

Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.

~ Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told him no. No, I had not. But I had been wrong. And Tom Cardle has been right. For I had known everything, right from the start, and never acted on any of it. I had blocked it from my mind time and again, refused to recognize what was staring me in the face. I had said nothing when I should have spoken out, convincing myself that I was a man of higher character. I had been complicit in all their crimes, and people had suffered because of me. I had wasted my life. I had wasted every moment of my life. And the final irony was that it had taken a convicted pedophile to show me that in my silence, I was just as guilty as the rest of them.

~ John Boyne

When I am in a situation where I feel uncomfortable about speaking but it is necessary for me to speak, or if I feel 'put on the spot' my voice sounds strained, really weird, and it feels as if I have no control over how I sound in these situations. Sometimes then my voice is barely audible and I am frequently asked to repeat myself. Attempts at speaking are often embarrassing, shaming experiences for me. I sound quite different when speaking with someone I am more relaxed with, but I don't like the way my voice sounds at the best of times; I was horrified when I heard a recording of myself. Because of this inhibition about speaking, I have never learned to project my voice or to use it effectively. I often feel that I could no more use my vocal cords to break a silence, to get somebody's attention or to initiate an interaction than I could run through fire or do something dangerous in my life.

~ Carl Sutton

My silence never means I don’t have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.

~ Ali Rezavand Zayeri

Silence is often a measure of success.

~ Michael Bungay Stanier

Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.

~ Iain H. Murray

Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this?

~ Deyth Banger

What I hate??? You ask me??? Go and fuck off... You are asking from what am I afraid??? ... For cry it on loud...

~ Deyth Banger

Silence is a prince's friend.

~ George R.r. Martin

The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacophony of the masses when silence is the best option and silence will speak for itself

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...

~ Deyth Banger

Over the years, they’d become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.

~ Glenn B Miller

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?

~ Valérie Zenatti

real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.

~ Bashō Matsuo

I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.

~ Jordan L. Hawk

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

~ Sarah Dessen

I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the best thing you can do is wait, say nothing. The witness will want to fill the awkward silence. He will feel a vague compassion to keep talking, to prove he is not holding back, to prove he is smart and in the know, to earn your trust.

~ William Landay