Quotes About Silence

I thought at the time that it was noble to bear the ills one had silently. But not so silently that others didn't know one was bearing them.

The wise woman thinks twice and speaks once or, better yet, does not speak at all.

I stood dumfounded, founded in dumbness.

One couple (they were college graduates) held long adult conversations with me in the big kitchen downstairs, until the husband went off to war. Then the wife who had been so charming and ready to smile changed into a silent shadow that played infrequently along the walls.

I left his room because, and only because, we had said all we could say. The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

Upon certain subject I am able to hold my tongue and hope that time will right wrongs.

I discovered that to achieve perfect personal silence all I had to do was to attach myself leechlike to sound. I began to listen to everything. I probably hoped that after I had heard all the sounds, really heard them and packed them down, deep in my ears, the world would be quiet around me.

No one mentioned his(Bailey's) absence as if things were as they should be and always were.

The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness. 34 Later, my room had all the cheeriness of a dungeon and the appeal of a tomb.

Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard was so agreeable to me that I went one step further: Obedient children should not see or hear if they chose not to do so.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.

When you see me sitting quietly, Like a sack left on the shelf, Don't think I need your chattering. I'm listening to myself. Hold!

There is no greater agony that bearing an untold story inside you.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou

A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.

There is a silent scream, which tears through the veins, separating the muscles, pinching the nerves, yet the body seems to remain immobile.

I left the room because, and only because, we had said all we could say. The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no crafts to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

My sin lies in not screaming loud

It simply isn't a woman's nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.

She said nothing the entire time she was with you? Let nothing slip? Think, Alaric. The had to have said something. It simply isn't a woman's nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.