Quotes About Silence

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

For some things, a decent downeast silence was the only good response, at least in the immediate aftermath.

You might not notice the moon very much. White and silent, it shines a cold light that is merely a ghost of the beloved day.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

A very long silence.) - But you have friends. (A long silence.) You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportive? (A long silence.) What do you offer your friends to make them so supportive? (A long silence.) What do you offer? (Silence.) -----

No matter how she beseeched the stars for guidance, their light remained far awar and cold; they provided no answers and no comfort.

The quality that all last words share: the silence after.

If you want to know someone's secret, don't ask a thing. Just listen.

The full moon is saying 'O!' But the sun is silent

I go to another room, hoping someone will notice me, but I stay silent out of loyalty or fear.

I hadn't remembered that in decades. That particular quiet.

A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner

Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.

A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner, she recited to herself as she waited for the flare of temper to ebb. Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed." —Charlotte

perfect blue sky. Fresh snow dusted the trees and she felt the cold air freeze her cheeks. The first thing she noticed was how calm and peaceful it was.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake.

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

I remember weeping... at the silence, the stillness, the turning passages and cluttered walls. I supposed then that those things would be strange to me for ever, I felt their strangeness making me strange--make me a thing of points and hooks, a burr, a splinter in the gullet of the house.

No-one speaks. No-one moves (…). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells

For a time, all was still: for the yards there, like the grounds, are desperately bleak, all dirt and gravel—there is not so much as a blade of grass to be shivered by the breezes, or a worm or a beetle for a bird to swoop for.