Quotes About Silence

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

Fear makes people speechless

Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter.

God hears what is not spoken and understands what is not explained,for His love doesn't work in the lips or in the mind, but in the heart.

I'm making some changes in my life, if you don't hear anything from me... you're one of them.

Never waste your words on those people in your life who only deserve your silence. Because sometimes, the greatest show of strength is to say nothing at all.

Sometimes it doesn't matter how right you are... sometimes just shutting up is the best course of action.

Silence and smiles are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems and Silence is the way to avoid many problems.

With time, tears will dry and be overcome by a smile, joy will overcome sorrow, crowd will overcome loneliness, words will overcome silence, death will overcome life but nothing can ever overcome the memory you shared with special people in your life.

With silence I hear things louder. When I close my eyes I see things clearer. When I let go and just empty myself, I feel fuller. When I think about dying any minute, I feel alive.