Quotes About Silence

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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 attentionÃ. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

A simple pause of silence between friends, even if merely for one beautiful second, is a chance for their souls to mingle and truly appreciate the intricacies of each other.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing...not healing, not curing...that is a friend who cares.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

A daily thought, a silent tear, a constant wish that you were here. Words are few but thoughts are deep. Memories of our friendship I will always keep.

That awkward moment, when people ask: Are you a couple? And you look at each other and wait who's going to answer first.

They say 'A Picture' Is Worth A Thousand Words. But I think they're wrong. When I looked at yours, I was speechless...

Look deep within my eyes, and see all the words a mouth can't say, and only a heart can understand.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

If you don't know what to say to them, don't. A silent hug is worth a thousand words to an unhappy heart.

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Those who spend their lives trying to help others to be happy, can often be the ones hurting, and they will never tell you.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Silence is a girl's loudest cry. If she is speechless, her heart is too tired for words.