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Quotes About Silence

I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.
~ will.i.am
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
~ Lady Gregory
The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
~ Marina Abramovic
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
~ Blaise Pascal
I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes an artist to sing the spaces. Anybody can paint a brushstroke; it takes an artist to know when not to put the brushstroke.
~ Brian Stokes Mitchell
Miranda waited. No voice spoke. No heavenly choir broke out in song. God Himself did not call her name. She frowned. Typical.
~ L.A. Kuehlke, Pursuit
You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.
~ Jojo Moyes, After You
Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.
~ Faraaz Kazi
It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.
~ Vikas Swarup, Q & A
I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.I'm cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.
~ Coco J. Ginger
An adamant silence overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of an indefinable unknown, unconsciously desired.
~ Carl Henegan
Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.
~ Joyce Rachelle
I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
Symphony of the airmy ear can hearmy only companiona rocking chairsilence is masterwishing you were here.
~ PSYHEEL
My love translated sounds like a dead language.
~ Salma Deera
She told her secret love, not me, i could'nt speak, i smiled.
~ nibin
Smileshe told about her secret love, not me, i could'nt speak, i smiled.
~ nibin
But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.
~ S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped
Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words.
~ Carla Gipson Lizana
These are the things you don't say, even to someone you love.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
~ L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest