2,656 Quotes About Silence

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in the darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.Where shall the word be found, where shall the wordResound? Not here, there is not enough silence

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.