2,656 Quotes About Silence

We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well,But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell.

It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.

A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.

Contemplation in life is more important than bullshit. So enjoy Silence.

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.

If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious that it would have been really interesting to render the mystery palpable and transferable.

Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.In that silence I kept hearing what I had said--heard it repeating itself over and over again like a stuck record. I wanted it to stop. I didn't want to say things like that anymore. I was sick of that kind of lying. I wished I could say something real.But the silence was too big.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.