Quotes About Silence

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

It is irritating when someone talking to me, When she is not talking

In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.

Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak.

Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.