Silence Quotes

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Poems are difficult to silence.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

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

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

Silence, too, can be torture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.