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The Silence of the Final GoodbyeI knew you best from the silences,The time and space in between,The moment before our lips touched,The way your arms went up in the air before you laughed,The smile that we shared before we talked,The redness on your face before your tears,The sensation of your arms around me after you released the embrace.The look you gave me before you walked away,Nothing had ever been so painful,No words could say what your eyes told me,When I wake in the morning without you,It’s the first thing I hear…The silence of the final goodbye.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
If I didn’t look too closely, I wouldn’t see that Tiras wasn’t there. If I didn’t breathe too deeply, I wouldn’t feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didn’t move too quickly, I wouldn’t reach any painful conclusions. And if I didn’t listen, I wouldn’t hear the silence he always left behind.
— Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword
that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.
— Okey Ndibe, Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
Silence is the small man’s only defense.
— Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story...
— Deyth Banger
People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence. Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her.
— Kent Nerburn, Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol 13 1962-63: A Psychological Revolution
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
— Thomas Hobbes
Sometimes, God’s silence is a challenge for us to act
— Sunday Adelaja
Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.
— Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
— Maurice Switzer
There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy....Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space....God may be speaking 'in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.
— Terryl L. Givens, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith
who knows your silence is screening some back stage trouble for me as I have spoken truth .
— litymunshi
Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.
— Shūsaku Endō, Silence
The silence is becoming more poisonous and I have no one to talk with, not even my own self
— Hilal Hamdaan
Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the eternal hush of the cosmos.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can speak loudly with deep silence
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?
— Joubert
It had started snowing, a thick wet layer of slush that won't stick. There are no cars on the road, nothing but big white flakes falling onto our faces, erasing the buildings around us, and the low swish of our feet on the road as we try to keep our footing, a soft wheeze humming from the bottom of my lungs from too much smoking.In the middle of Nation Road, Mazzie turns to me without any warning. She grabs my arm and we both fall down, and then we're sitting there in the middle of the bare road, and for a few seconds we just sit there, quite, listening to the eerie silent noise of snow falling against land.Snow covers Mazzie's eyelashes, making her look like a tiny ice princess– the closest she will ever come to wearing makeup."You look pretty," I say."Shut up.
— Jessica Warman, Breathless
When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.
— Nanamoli Thera
He looked down at the street, and the unbroken whiteness, and watched his foot touch the snow and listened to the slight crunching sound as he stepped forward. He looked back at his footprints. They were fascinating. He had been the only one to walk along this street today. There wasn’t even the mark of a dog or squirrel, or the scratch of a bird. He continued through the soft, silent snow, a feeling of peace starting to flow through him, helping make his step lighter and easier.
— Hubert Selby Jr., Song of the Silent Snow
He looked at the houses he had been passing these weeks and though he had never studied them carefully they had become familiar through the process of seeing them so often, and he was now impressed with the change in their appearance as he looked at them through the gray of the air and whiteness of the snow, each house, shrub, tree, bush and mailbox trimmed with snow and blending into the air as if they were just a picture projected upon the still, pearly grayness, just an impression created by the silent snow, a picture on the edge and verge of disappearing and leaving only the air and snow through which he now lightly walked.It did not seem possible, but the air was even softer and quieter. He continued walking alongside his prints feeling he could walk forever, that as long as the silent snow continued falling he could continue walking, and as he did he would leave behind all worries and cares, all horrors of the past and future. There would be nothing to bother him or torture his mind and fill his body with tremors of fear, the dark night of the soul over. There would only be himself and the soft, silent snow; and each flake, in its own life, its own separate and distinct entity, would bring with it its own joy, and he would easily partake of that joy as he continued walking, the gentle, silent snow falling ever so quietly, ever so joyously ... yes, and ever so love-ing-ly ... loveing-ly....
— Hubert Selby Jr., Song of the Silent Snow
When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Silence heals nothing, fixes nothing, and unlocks nothing. Just because you don’t say something doesn’t make it any less true.
— Mary Calmes, Crucible of Fate
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
I keep thinkingThat poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence,In a secret place between two people,Almost always between two strangers
— José Emilio Pacheco
I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.
— Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
And remember, silence is all it takes to validate evil and remember, indifference is all it takes to endorse it.
— Adeosun Olamide
In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.
— J.M. Coetzee
That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don’t happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.
— Paul Auster, Sunset Park
The bigness of the West makes men quiet
—  they seldom talk unless they have something to say.
Ultimately, our questions must emerge not from mental categories, but from deep within the heart. They must rise to the surface of our beings as we sit in silence, so that they are not just the old questions which we raise whenever we have nothing else to talk about or just for the sake of argument. They need to be the questions which make a difference in our lives.
— Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Credo of a Modern Kabbalist
Never underestimate the effect of well-timed silence.
— Bruce Rhoades
Best of the conversations are sometimes made in silence..
— Danya Krish
The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.
— Stephen D. Krashen, The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications
I defendNot my voice, but my silence
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
He grinned back at me, and I remembered how normal he’d made me feel the first time we’d met. Here, once again, he wasn’t bothered by my silence. And I suddenly realized what made me feel so uncomfortable about Elizabeth’s exploits. The people she attracted were drawn to the same thing everyone else was: our glowing skin, dreamy eyes, and air of secrecy. But this boy? He seemed to see more than that. He saw me not just as a mysterious beauty, but as a girl he wanted to know.He didn’t stare at me. He spoke to me.
— Kiera Cass, The Siren
It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.
— Osho, Ancient Music in the Pines: In Zen Mind Suddenly Stops
Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
The mansion was as silent as I wished the inside of my head could be. No noise – not even a ragged inhale of breath or a whispered word. Truly blissful.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Return
He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.
— Tess Gerritsen, Life Support
... I will keep the silence... do the same...
— Deyth Banger
All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.
— Paul Auster
A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.
— Joe Hill, The Fireman
Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
At a stage in life, you learn to talk less. That is, let your works do the talking. Hence, work hard in silence. The evidence will be clear for all to see.
— Oscar Bimpong
These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.
— Samantha Hunt, Mr. Splitfoot
My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words.
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
Contemplation in life is more important than bullshit. So enjoy Silence.
— Eyden I.
Have we,” asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great ‘unknown philosopher,’ “have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that leads to the simplicity of men?” Let us wait in silence: perhaps ere long we shall be conscious of “the murmur of the gods.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Jack Miles's wonderful literary reading of the Hebrew Bible as a biography of God offers the insight that after the Book of Job, God never speaks again. God may seem to silence Job, but Job silences God. It is lovely that Job silencing God is part of the text (though likely an accidental order of the books), because it reflects a real change in the real world after the Book of Job came into it.
— Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
— L.M. Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard
You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas—a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. 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?
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
The room rang with her voice, then with silence. In the shaded darkness, silence had the quality of a looming dragon. It seemed to roar and the roar to reverberate, to dominate. To escape from it would require a burst of recklessness, even cruelty.
— Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the minute we come into the house or start the car. The pollution of noise in our cities is as destructive as the pollution of air. We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethan's used "um" and "er" the way we do? And increasingly prevalent is what my husband calls an articulated pause: "You know." We interject "you know" meaninglessly into every sentence, in order that the flow of our speech should not be interrupted by such a terrifying thing as silence.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To admire me is to admire my silence,Petra HermansSeptember 5, 2016
— Petra Hermans
We all were silent for a reason, maybe our hearts were talking to us, and it is a human behavior whenever someone is in a crisis or something great is happening, our hearts speaks to us. More and more, only that time because we are too obsessed to use our brains after every work every day that listening to heart becomes secondary
— Shaikh Ashraf, Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
And then there's silence. Though is silence the right word when, through the quiet, the air is so charged, electricity crackles deafeningly without making a sound?
— Riley Edgewood, Truth & Temptation
You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.
— Jonathan R. Miller
Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.
— Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing
Tact by its nature entails staying mum, prudently electing to forgo urging other people to pursue an alternative course of action. Creation of silent spaces in our own life and equitable distribution of periods of respite that allow for periods of equable inner reflection is necessary to spur personal growth. It is equally important to honor other people’s intrinsic need for periods of introspection, uninterrupted by unsolicited advice
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to speak for the voiceless.
— Gugu Mona
A pause gives you breathing spaceso listen to the whispersof the real youwaiting to happen.
— Tara Estacaan
He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere
— Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing
(The Purge),... A lot of movies say that the silence is a deadly weapon yeah.... it's true!You, never know from where somebody is going to came out and how is going to came out.
— Deyth Banger
After all answering "mmm" or silence in the story "The story in the Jail", it's shown that isn't the best idea.
— Deyth Banger
Sometimes silence can kill that a sword cannot
— Mohammed Mushtaq GK
You see an army running after you, every minute they become more and more you run as much faster as possible, you leave everything behind your back to safe your ass... and after all you are alone silence is with you.
— Deyth Banger
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
— Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
Real compassion only exists in silence
— Petra Hermans
What I want???I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?
— Deyth Banger
And so I would like to thank you. You taught me, again and again again and again and again, not to dream of you. And I listened. I am silent. These words are not words of love, but of the silence that will remain when I walk away when this letter is done. I have listened and I do not continue to imagine our love, for it was not love. You were too busy walking a flowered path, and it was my misstep that I thought we had something more than an hour’s fun for you.Thank you, for clarifying for me what love is not.Love is no thing, and nothing is a gift, space is a playground, and time and distance are merely peaks and valleys in the topography of real love.And I would remind you: I am not one of your fans. For I know what I deserve, and it is one who is not afraid of fear. Love does not require this map: it makes its way across the miles. Love does not heed the time; it is not rooted in the months of one or two moons. Love is not bothered by obstacles—they form the high sides to the left and right of this rocky path. This path does not depend upon external signs: love will find its own way.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it.
— Syed Azeem Bukhari
[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.
— Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
When the silence of the night becomes the chanting of poetry, the departure of con-cavity
— Goitsemang Mvula
There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their memories, rewriting their histories, and imposing on them a state-sanctioned identity. Or the silence of witnesses who choose to ignore or not speak the truth, and of victims who at times become complicit in the crimes committed against them. Then there are the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives.
— Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
Silence, like salt, only seems to be weightless. In reality, if one allows time to dampen it, it grows heavy as an anvil.
— Guadalupe Nettel
When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks!- WOW
— Deyth Banger
Volumes are spoken when nothing is being said.
— R.J. Torbert, No Mercy
One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.
— David Grossman
Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.
— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonder. A story that will give you another story. One day I will tell you a story. A story about life. A story about my life. One day I will tell you a story!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.
— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told him no. No, I had not. But I had been wrong. And Tom Cardle has been right. For I had known everything, right from the start, and never acted on any of it. I had blocked it from my mind time and again, refused to recognize what was staring me in the face. I had said nothing when I should have spoken out, convincing myself that I was a man of higher character. I had been complicit in all their crimes, and people had suffered because of me. I had wasted my life. I had wasted every moment of my life. And the final irony was that it had taken a convicted pedophile to show me that in my silence, I was just as guilty as the rest of them.
— John Boyne, A History of Loneliness
When I am in a situation where I feel uncomfortable about speaking but it is necessary for me to speak, or if I feel 'put on the spot' my voice sounds strained, really weird, and it feels as if I have no control over how I sound in these situations. Sometimes then my voice is barely audible and I am frequently asked to repeat myself. Attempts at speaking are often embarrassing, shaming experiences for me. I sound quite different when speaking with someone I am more relaxed with, but I don't like the way my voice sounds at the best of times; I was horrified when I heard a recording of myself. Because of this inhibition about speaking, I have never learned to project my voice or to use it effectively. I often feel that I could no more use my vocal cords to break a silence, to get somebody's attention or to initiate an interaction than I could run through fire or do something dangerous in my life.
— Carl Sutton, Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood
My silence never means I don’t have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.
— Ali Rezavand Zayeri
Silence is often a measure of success.
— Michael Bungay Stanier
Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.
— Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981
Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this?
— Deyth Banger
What I hate??? You ask me??? Go and fuck off... You are asking from what am I afraid??? ... For cry it on loud...
— Deyth Banger
Silence is a prince's friend.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacophony of the masses when silence is the best option and silence will speak for itself
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...
— Deyth Banger
Over the years, they’d become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.
— Glenn B Miller, The Barrier: Parental concern never ends
I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?
— Valérie Zenatti, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.
— Bashō Matsuo, Lips Too Chilled
I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.
— Jordan L. Hawk, Widdershins
Silence is the loudest sound!
— Gabriella Jording
In the summer,on fine evenings, I love to drive late andalone in the scented forests, and when I havereached a dark part stop, and sit quite still, listeningto the nightingales repeating their little tune overand over aga^n after interludes of gurgling, or ifthere are no nightingales, listening to the marvelloussilence, and letting its blessedness descend intomy very souL The nightingales in the forestsabout here all sing the same tune, and in the samekey of (E flat).
— Elizabeth von Arnim
The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the best thing you can do is wait, say nothing. The witness will want to fill the awkward silence. He will feel a vague compassion to keep talking, to prove he is not holding back, to prove he is smart and in the know, to earn your trust.
— William Landay, Defending Jacob
The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
— Carl Hiaasen, Hoot
Silence is also a form of speaking. They’re exactly alike. It’s a basic component of language. We’re always selecting what we say and what we don’t. Why do we say one thing and not the other? And we do this instinctively, too, because no matter what we’re talking about, there’s more that doesn’t get said than does. And this isn’t always to hide things—it’s simply part of an instinctive selection in our speech. This selection varies from one person to the next, so that no matter how many people describe the same thing, the descriptions are different, the point of view is different. And even if there is a similar viewpoint, people make different choices as to what is said or not said. This was very clear to me, coming from the village, since the people there never said more than they absolutely needed to. When I was fifteen and went to the city, I was amazed at how much people talked and how much of that talk was pointless. And how much people talked about themselves—that was totally alien to me.For me, silence had always been another form of communication. After all, you can tell so much just by looking at a person. At home we always knew about each other even if we didn’t talk about ourselves all the time. I encountered a lot of silence elsewhere as well. There was the silence that was self-imposed, because you could never say what you really thought.
— Herta Müller
In the heart, silence becomes an echo of unanswered needs
— Bluenscottish
I sit beside the momentThat stares at silenceBefore anything could happen
— Sayantan Sen, Quiet: A collection of poems
The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.
— Sercan Leylek
She sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.
— Dexter Hawk, 25 Things to Say to the Interviewer, to Get the Job You Want: Being Qualified Isn't Enough
In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
For one who knows not God – Mighty and Glorious!- silence is imperative, and for one who knows God Most High silence is prescribed.
— حجة الإسلام أبو حامد محمد الغزالي
I maintained a tactical silence. When you maintain a tactical silence and look people right in the eye, as if drinking in their words, they talk. People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows--every researcher, every writer, every spy.
— Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
Silence is the most powerful scream.
— Anonymous
I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.
— Janet Frame, The Edge of the Alphabet
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghostOr Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang outHis stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.
— Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.
— Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery
Shhhhhhhh..... Be silent. Silence your mind and listen.... Let the voice of your soul echo and shiiiiine!
— Angie karan
One's silence can be deafening indeed,but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.
— Will Leamon
When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Most often, their association was one of silence, but that is a thing of uncommon worth when partaken of in the ease of another.
— A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)
— Patti Smith, M Train
What can you talk to sky? Just nothing...simply enjoy the vastness and magnanimity. What can you talk to ocean? Nothing....enjoy the waves.
— Aditya Ajmera
I knowThat I can't sit hereAnd expect my silenceTo evoke changeWithout reason.
— Jordan Hoechlin
One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One of the most powerful lessons silence teach us is to ponder
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.
— Anonymous
You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
It was normal for it to rain, but in October- who could forget the rains of October?- now this disturbingly silent rain was falling. That was so nebulous that it was pretty; that, if it had not been wet, no one would have believed it was raining; that was so slow that it was possible to follow its fall with one's eyes. That which villagers called 'the rains of October' was the accumulation of the serenity of such a life. Eyes almost broke into tears on looking at the sun subdividing itself, at the end of the afternoon, in each drop of that snail's-pace precipitation, as if the great star had dissolved each day an infinitesimal bit more.
— Ondjaki, The Whistler
Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Inspired action is when you take action with no mind. Pure silence.
— Matthew Donnelly
Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
— William Shakespeare
Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.
— Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files
Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
My silence is my self-defence.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.
— Suman Pokhrel
Sometimes silence is the only therapy you need.
— Karen A. Baquiran
What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.
— Claude Monet
Silence is also a form of speaking.
— Herta Müller
There are always a million words behind the silence.
— Shannon L. Alder
In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Silence by any other name is called shame.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
— E.M. Forster, The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories
I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.
— Jeanette Winterson
Mass media has convinced us to think that silence is only supposed to happen as a manifestation of supreme actualization, where both parties are so at peace with their emotional connection that it cannot be expressed through the rudimentary tools of the lexicon; otherwise, silence is proof that the magic is gone and the relationship is over (hence the phrase “We just don’t talk anymore”).
— Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Silence is the biggest weapon sometime..
— Debolina Bhawal
If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence.
— Steven Magee
Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk.
— A.W. Tozer
A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.
— Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection.I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me.I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain.I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips.I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Enjoy TheSound Of Silence.
— Timothy Salter, Reflections in Short Poetry
Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.
— Gordon Hempton
Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Silence is its own kind of tension.
— Erika Swyler
The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.
— Alan Kinross, Longinus The Vampire: Babylon
... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.
— R.S. Thomas
In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.
— Anonymous
A mist crept into the valley—how could this be, by the light of the climbing sun? It drifted over the form in the grass, nearly obscuring it, seeming to draw all sound into itself. I thought I might burst from the strain of that silence... until a single sound shattered it:The gasp of an indrawn breath.
— Tosca Lee, Havah: The Story of Eve
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.
— Dot Hutchison, A Wounded Name
Everything was for this moment- of silence, of bliss! I am speechless at this shrine of You and I understand that life was just a journey to find You, the deepest consciousness living in even the dead!
— Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores
Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.
— Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity
You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.
— Lauren Kate, Teardrop
Silent is an anagram of listen.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
he looks the waysilence looks before it’s broken
— Andrew McMillan, Every Salt Advance
Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day.
— Sunday Adelaja
We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are. We fear silence like it's an invisible monster, gnawing at us, ripping us open, and showing us our dissatisfaction. Silence is terrifying.
— Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.
— James Purdy, Eustace Chisholm and the Works
It's all about inner silence! Everything else would just take you there!
— Preeth Nambiar, The Voyage to Eternity
Seek O mortal, the meaning of life in your innermost silence!
— Preeth Nambiar, The Voyage to Eternity
Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!
— Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores
Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last. When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.
— Sunday Adelaja
In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?
— Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores
I will look at you in the darkness of the night, where there are no colours to fill my eyes and where there are no frames that would define your shape. In the silence, I will seek the warmth of the night in your memories and sleep holding tight those orphan dreams. O dear, amidst the cloudy skies, where did you disappear?
— Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores
Silence is a 'contingent' phenomenon with positive or negative qualities. When it has to be assessed it needs to be 'contextualized' by exploring its background.
— Erik Pevernagie
We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.
— J.R. Rim
There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Om is the signature sound of this Universe. It is the soundless sound of existence.
— Banani Ray
Within the caves of deepest longing Echoes the sounds of majestic eve! Upon the sphere of bright white skies Spreads the paint of evening colours!Silence divine, Penetrates deep Onto the void of ethereal joy!All I have is a bundle of letters That would sound nothing definite!Hold my arms to touch my warmth,O dear, whisper on my ears soft,Is silence the fall of words or Are words the wreck of silence?
— Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores
If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world
—  offer your silence with smile.
Thy silence, then that voices thee.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Wisdom got sound. It is called silence
— Sameh Elsayed
Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets.
— Angela L Craig
Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept it’s mouth shut?
— Ashwin Sanghi
Silence is the song of eternity
—  it is the expression of eternal beauty.
Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence
— Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. "I thought I heard something.""Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Exist outside but live and rest within...
— Aditya Ajmera
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.
— Anonymous
Your silences remain
—  they are your biggest mask.
Silence, like madness, is only comparative.
— Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
This forest silence improves anyone.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.
— Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World
The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
— Emil M. Cioran
The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.
— Debasish Mridha
Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.
— Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
Best *sometimes it is best not to speakbut just gaze silentlyinto the infinity of your own soul_____________________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015"The Poetic Assassin
— rassool jibraeel snyman
The Greenland fjords are peculiar for the spells of completely quiet weather, when there is not enough wind to blow out a match and the water is like a sheet of glass. The kayak hunter must sit in his boat without stirring a finger so as not to scare the shy seals away. Actually, he can only move his eyes, as even the slightest move otherwise might mean game lost. The sun, low in the sky, sends a glare into his eyes, and the landscape around moves into the realm of the unreal. The reflex from the mirror-like water hypnotizes him, he seems to be unable to move, and all of a sudden it is as if he were floating in a bottomless void, sinking, sinking, and sinking.... Horror-stricken, he tries to stir, to cry out, but he cannot, he is completely paralyzed, he just falls and falls.
— Peter Freuchen, Book of the Eskimos
Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say
— Srividya Srinivasan
Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.
— Jack Campbell, Victorious
The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.
— Carla H. Krueger
At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity
— Jalaluddin Rumi
If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.
— Julian Aguon, The Fire This Time: Essays on Life Under Us Occupation
In the name of Him Who created and sustains the world, the Sage Who endowed tongue with speech. He attains no honor who turns the face from the doer of His mercy. The kings of the earth prostate themselves before Him in supplication. He seizes not in haste the disobedient, nor drives away the penitent with violence. The two worlds are as a drop of water in the ocean of His knowledge. He withholds not His bounty though His servants sin; upon the surface of the earth has He spread a feast, in which both friend and foe may share. Peerless He is, and His kingdom is eternal. Upon the head of one He placed a crown another he hurled from the throne to the ground. The fire of His friend He turned into a flower garden; through the water of the Nile He sended His foes to perdition. Behind the veil He sees all, and concealed our faults with His own goodness. He is near to them that are downcast, and accepts the prayers of them that lament. He knows of the things that exist not, of secrets that are untold. He causes the moon and the sun to revolve, and spreads water upon the earth. In the heart of a stone hath He placed a jewel; from nothing had He created all that is. Who can reveal the secret of His qualities; what eye can see the limits of His beauty? The bird of thought cannot soar to the height of His presence, nor the hand of understanding reach to the skirt of His praise. Think not, O Saadi, that one can walk in the road of purity except in the footsteps of Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him)
— Saadi, The Bustan of Sa'di
Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.
— Shannon L. Alder
Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace
— Giacomo Leopardi
Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. This is astonishing: my hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I must have butterfly hearing.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly