2,656 Quotes About Silence

It was as if the sun had been stolen. Only thin ribbons of light seeped down through the green and milky air, air syrupy with the scent of pine, huckleberry, and juniper. From the rolling, emerald-carpeted earth, fingers of lacy ferns curled up, above which the massive fir and pine trees stood, pillar-like, to support an invisible sky. Hovering over everything was a silence as deep as the trees were tall.

It wasn't your fault, Rajkumar. You didn't do anything.""No, I didn't. And with my silence, I became an accomplice.

Silence doesn’t mean no activity; it means highly synchronized actions, much like the work of a well-tuned motor. More noise and vibration never assure better engine performance; indeed, quite the opposite.

The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—

Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them.

But he didn’t say anything, and neither did she. Not because the words were deliberately withheld, but because the pipeline between them was too occluded for such bravery.

Indifference is modern cannibalism.

The silence that followed, much like me, was short lived.

A democracy of civilized people practicing indifference is far more savage than a tribe of cannibals, for at least the cannibals do not pretend to be civilized.