Quotes About Silence

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

we had allowed our eyes to meet only once- by accident as much as out of necessity- and not ten seconds had passed before the agony had become too great to bear and we had retreated into silence and coldness once more.

i know he was not angry with me- he could not be angry with me- and yet his silence felt like anger to me, as cold and raging as fury.

since no words would come to mind, I just drank him in for a minute. - Taylor First, The Tutor by Kailin Gow

Oh, do shut up, boy. It's not like I've ever been one for goodbyes.", FADE by Kailin Gow

We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.

He hung up so gently, I didn't even hear the click.

grief saw nothing but itself, grief saw every speck of pain in the world; grief spread its wings large like an eagle, grief huddled small like a porcupine; grief needed company, grief craved solitude; grief wanted to remember, wanted to forget; grief raged, grief whimpered; grief made time compress and contract; grief tasted like hunger, felt like numbness, sounded like silence

On those days, Hasan understood what Ami had meant when she said that there are memories that cannot be spoken of, because to speak of them imperfectly is to rob the of something vital, though to leave them intact, inside, is to leave no space for anything else in your life.

At Vipers, when the German gunners shot Afroze who chose to cry out his grief knowing the consequences rather than bear the death of a beloved in silence, a whisper burbled across the field: Ina lillahi wa inna illayhi rajiun. The men of the 40th, not all of them Muslim, whispered the words for the two dead men, and the prayer would have reached the gunners as wind on water or the sighs of ghosts.

He put his arm around me. That was all. He put his arm around me and we didn't say a word.

You meant so much to me... that I couldn't even say I love you.

sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.

political backlash has resulted in Republican-controlled legislatures across the country passing laws to make voting more difficult for minority voters. Punishment for raising your voice is to silence that voice.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

Actors should never give interviews.

Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.

I don't give interviews.

I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.