2,656 Quotes About Silence

A noisy street is noisy, but a quiet street is not quiet because you just don't hear enough the sounds there!

Our silences were our real conversations. Our eyes were our real language.

I don’t speak a word about you but,You are there in every word I speak.I may forgive youOn the day when my heart no longerWhispers your name orOn the dayI no longer see you in my dreams.You were my dream in the day timeNow, I am going to hide youIn my silenceAll through the night.I don’t speak a word about you but,You are there in every word I speak.

I try to hide youWith the silenceBut, my eyesSay the unsaid words andSpeak in the loudest volume.In your hesitation,I found my answers.In your silence,I found my answers.Sometimes,I laugh at myselfSo much thatThe tears roll down andReach to my cracked lips.I try to hide youWith the silenceBut, my eyesSay the unsaid words andSpeak in the loudest volume.

We may wonder what is going on in the back of the mind and what betides in the mood of some people who live on the edge of isolation and emotional poverty. They belong to life’s outcasts: deserted by affection, deprived of physical or lingual contact and finally reduced to silence. ("Why didn't he ask ? ")

Just as open doors let the steam out of a steam bath, so does the person with lips constantly open lose their inner composure.

The crack that was Yark's mouth elongated, not a smile so much as a forcing apart of seams that went with the blunt question. To force Quoyle's seams apart. And other forced seams implicit.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence.