2,656 Quotes About Silence

I know now that the Spirit is trying to birth something in my life when I find myself craving silence and darkness, when I find myself editing my circle down to just the trusted few whom I know will midwife me through this birth. It's nothing to fear; it's the time of transition.

Love has value even though we can’t measure it. Silence has meaning even though we can’t understand it.

Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.

It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could.

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

...people would tell you much more than you expected to if you were generically presentable and left silence next to them like a friendly stranger; it was like they were waiting for some friendly silence so they could fill it with words; and words were useful, words were hints and intimations, words were fingers pointed in certain directions, if you listened carefully..

A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.