Quotes About Silence

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

If I lost the ability to speak, what would my life be saying?

As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.

The arctic loneliness of age.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.

Of course, you can't force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such signs you can tell, for instance, what he thinks of his wife . . .

After more darkness and silence, I said, "Well, do you believe in the informed decision?" More darkness and silence. "No!" I envy his certainty! He understood that a determined life had its limits. "I had a wonderful life and I had nothing to do with it"—well, now I can say that, too. There is this sense of being on your own path.

He went through the old motions of his life, taking care of what needed caring for, keeping mostly quiet about what was on his mind. But his hard waiting changed him; you could see it in his face.

but we didn't speak of what was bothering us the most. Maybe we didn't need to. It couldn't have been "talked out." It had to be worn out.