Silence Quotes

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

~ Carl Hiaasen

In the heart, silence becomes an echo of unanswered needs

~ Bluenscottish

I sit beside the momentThat stares at silenceBefore anything could happen

~ Sayantan Sen

The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.

~ Sercan Leylek

She sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

~ Dexter Hawk

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

~ Andrew Pettegree

I maintained a tactical silence. When you maintain a tactical silence and look people right in the eye, as if drinking in their words, they talk. People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows--every researcher, every writer, every spy.

~ Michel Houellebecq

Silence is the most powerful scream.

~ Anonymous

I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.

~ Janet Frame

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

~ Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.

~ T.f. Hodge

If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghostOr Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang outHis stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

~ Wallace Stevens

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.

~ Agatha Christie

One's silence can be deafening indeed,but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.

~ Will Leamon

When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Most often, their association was one of silence, but that is a thing of uncommon worth when partaken of in the ease of another.

~ A.s. Peterson

He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)

~ Patti Smith

What can you talk to sky? Just nothing...simply enjoy the vastness and magnanimity. What can you talk to ocean? Nothing....enjoy the waves.

~ Aditya Ajmera

I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.

~ Anonymous

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It was normal for it to rain, but in October- who could forget the rains of October?- now this disturbingly silent rain was falling. That was so nebulous that it was pretty; that, if it had not been wet, no one would have believed it was raining; that was so slow that it was possible to follow its fall with one's eyes. That which villagers called 'the rains of October' was the accumulation of the serenity of such a life. Eyes almost broke into tears on looking at the sun subdividing itself, at the end of the afternoon, in each drop of that snail's-pace precipitation, as if the great star had dissolved each day an infinitesimal bit more.

~ Ondjaki

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Inspired action is when you take action with no mind. Pure silence.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

~ Sherry Turkle

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

~ Davis Miller

O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

~ William Shakespeare

Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.

~ Kenneth Eade

Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.

~ Will Advise

My silence is my self-defence.

~ Jenim Dibie

Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.

~ Suman Pokhrel

Sometimes silence is the only therapy you need.

~ Karen A. Baquiran

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

~ Claude Monet

Silence is also a form of speaking.

~ Herta Müller

In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Silence by any other name is called shame.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

~ E.m. Forster

I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.

~ Jeanette Winterson