Quotes About Silence

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.

What in life can love not penetrate? Mabel Hubbard, deaf since childhood, gave Alexander Bell a piano as a wedding gift and asked that he play it for her every day, as if his music could pierce her silence. Decades later, at Bell's deathbed, it was his wife who made the sounds, saying the words, "Don't leave me," while he, no longer able to talk, used sign language to answer, No.

He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

Remember this, Francisco," he said. "The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.

Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

you feel like a steel door has been locked; you're banging, but they just can't hear you. And being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in.

I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it.

I am not bothered by the silence. For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others - especially not classmates.

Why was he so quiet? To see if you would listen

You cannot talk when you first arrive. It helps you to listen.

All he heard was his own labored breathing, followed by an echo of that breathing. He inhaled and heard a louder inhale. He exhaled, and it exhaled too. Eddie squeezed his eyes shut. Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken, and Eddie knew.