Quotes About Silence

The Hanging Tree" out loud for ten years, because it's forbidden, but I remember every word. I begin softly, sweetly, as my father did.

A hush in the trees. Just the rustle of leaves in the breeze. But no birds, mockingjay or other. Peeta's right. They do fall silent when I sing. Just as

I had a thought," Bradshaw said into the silence. "Amazing," Tristan returned dryly.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

The words take the air out of the room and make my skin crawl. We sit there quietly, afraid it might get worse. It can always get worse. I know that now.

There is still so much I want to know, want to ask. But before I can say anything else, the world stops. There's silence around me. I wait a beat, and when I finally sit up, I find Harlin waiting for me—ready to start again.

We've run out of comforting things to say.

The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.

The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!