2,656 Quotes About Silence

Words spoken by two people in any relationship are so predictable. Countless people are saying the same sentences, word by word. It's all so stale. Only silence is new every moment.

She suddenly realised that saying nothing at all only ever helps the executioner, never the victim. P. 106

I'm standing outside and so far I have nothing to say to anyone, and I like it that way because it makes me seem more interesting. It's amazing what not speaking can do for other people in terms of levels of interest.

He who cannot take sides should keep silent.

It was another momen when one of us could have said something, could have given us time, but neither of us did. We looked at each other until I couldn't bear it anymore.

Silence is great. It's peaceful. It's something we all need, in this hectic modern life, silence.

This silence belongs to us… and every single person out there, is waiting for us to fill it with something.

They found themselves listening to the silence, fascinated by it. There did not even seem to be the faint, high hum that comes in utter stillness, the sound of nerve endings idling in neutral. There was only a great dead soundlessness and the beat of blood in their own ears.And yet they both knew, of course. They were not alone.

A woman’s silence, behind its enigmatic allure, is like the lofty tower that a man couldn’t climb or comprehend: cold, deliberate, and calculating.