Quotes About Silence

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

There are certain things I do not talk about.

So you see, this is why I never told my story. If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand.

Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence?

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

Thank you for understanding my silences and pampering me with your love and care.

I wish my coworkers would give up talking to me for Lent.

Remember how we could talk for hours? Now we can barely look at each other, and it breaks my heart.

A few of the friends I text with quite a bit stopped replying to me. I guess they have moved on from our friendship without telling me.

Every man has one girl that doesnt know what she means to him.

Sometimes you have to keep your secrets to yourself, if not, it may go into the wrong person ears that will come out their mouth to destroy you...

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

Some things I refuse to talk about on social networking sites. Some things are off limits, like issues with family.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.