2,656 Quotes About Silence

When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.

Our distracted digital world is here to stay, so the question is more of how we can truly embrace the beauty that is the stillness and the silence.

The voices in my head are never meant to be silenced, they are always meant to be listened to, embraced and turned into something so fascinating such as poetry

Exist outside but live and rest within...

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

The policy of self-isolation and continuous silence are the greatest destroyers of marriage and relationship.

Silence is its own kind of tension.

Nothing so tempts us to approach another person as what is keeping us apart; and what barrier is so insurmountable as silence? It has been said also that silence is torture, capable of goading to madness the man who is condemned to it in a prison cell. But what an even greater torture than that of having to keep silence it is to have to endure the silence of the person one loves!

When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )