2,656 Quotes About Silence

Everything will be fine.” Words that are meant to console, in fact, represent complete indifference. Silence is better. Silence makes more sense than this stupid phrase. Everything will be fine…

The silence was beautiful and we both understood that it was not worth breaking it, because there was more sense in this silence than if one of us started filling the moment with empty words. That was a crime which neither of us dared to commit.

What does silence do in a world where we were born to speak?

They sat in silence, and George found their aversion to speaking welcome. Other than his wife [Isabelle], they seemed like the only individuals he'd come upon in some time who would rather leave a moment naked than tar it with wasted words.

She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing with numbers, but not counting. Silence demands the nature of night, even in full day, it demands shadows.

Naturally Nakata didn't reply. He was still on the other side of the divide. Wordlessly he continued as he was, dead. The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

Surely it is obvious that this generation desperately needs silence and solitude. Life can be utterly transformed by quietness.

Je voudrais lui dire que je sais. Pourquoi je me tais. Le silence. Je voudrais écrire le silence.