Quotes About Silence

There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.

Take the risk that you'll end up regretting your speech, because it's better than regretting your silence.

Albert shrugged, but Joseph could sense a world of things his uncle wasn't saying.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

It may be time for America to learn the forgotten rewards of sitting down and shutting up.

Simply being an introvert can also feel taxing—especially in America, land of the loud and home of the talkative.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

It's so quiet. More than anything, the silence makes me feel what I've lost. The Earth is no longer ours.

And I knew you, a swelling in the heart, A silence in the heart, the wild wind-blown grass Burning–as the sun falls below the earth– Brighter than a bed of lilies struck by snow. — Brigit Pegeen Kelly, from "Elegy," The Orchard: Poems (BOA Editions Ltd., 2004)

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

I've felt sometimes like I'd be less trouble if I'd just sit back and be quiet. But dreams are too important. We can't just let our dreams dry up and die, because then our hearts would break.

There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.

Krampus's voice trailed off, he glanced at Jesse. Jesse's head lay on his shoulder, his eyes closed; there came no sign of breath. "It appears I am talking to myself." Krampus crossed his arms atop his chest and grunted.

The dead should not speak, for their words smell of rot

The saddest part of the story to me is that no one talked about the duplicity. The missing bread was never mentioned. The people were silent. ———

Technology, Andrew says, makes us far too accessible to the demands and pressures of the moment. 'Our first priority should be listening in patience and silence for the voice of God.

There, the brows of mild repression--there, the lips of silent passion, Curved like an archer's bow to send the bitter arrows out.

This is what he was good at, he realized. This is what he did. He placed himself in the world, and the world drew his thoughts outside himself, where they multiplied and spiraled and led him in silent, thrilling flights. And as he expanded into the world, he expanded inside. At these moments an endlessness beyond thought opened inside him. Outside, his mind was whizzing through things, but inside, he was silent, still; sometimes, he knew he was not even breathing.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

My grandmother Hattie Mae's home was a place where children were seen and not heard.

Orgeron hates dead air. He feeds off energy. As in, energy is enthusiasm…enthusiasm breeds confidence…and confidence leads to winning. Silence, conversely, creates lulls, and lulls make people passive. And passivity? Absolutely, utterly forbidden in Ed Orgeron's world.

The aim of the self-willed man is growth. — A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth. He values only one thing, the mysterious power in himself which bids him live and helps him to grow. His only living destiny is the silent, ungainsayable law in his own heart, which comfortable habits make it so hard to obey but which to the self-willed man is destiny and godhead.

for we have had our say, our words, our time for speaking, our moments of light

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...