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Quotes About Silence

Not everything that's true needs to be said.
~ Cassandra Clare
The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.
~ Dennis Quaid
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
~ Ned Vizzini
Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
~ Paloma Faith
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.
~ Khalil Gibran
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
~ Mason Cooley
The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.
~ Stephen Chbosky
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
~ George Orwell, 1984
The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.
~ David J. Lieberman
Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
~ Anne Rice
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
~ Archibald MacLeish
It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
~ D. C. Fontana
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.
~ Frederick Lenz
All truths are not to be told.
~ George Herbert
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.
~ Julie Anne Peters
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.
~ Kate Mosse
The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.
~ Leonard Jacobson
Only the dead know the truth.
~ Leonid Andreyev
The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
~ Margaret Atwood
The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.
~ Mary Butts
Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan