2,656 Quotes About Silence

  • Author Peter Høeg
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    I sit there in total silence. It's always interesting to leave Europeans in silence. For them it's a vacuum in which the tension grows and converges toward the intolerable.

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  • Author Glenn Haybittle
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    Sometimes, to speak eloquently, you must remain silent. Max knows this. But often to remain silent is a crime.

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  • Author Khalid Hosseini
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    We didn’t say anything. Just sat in the dark, listened to the tink-tink of the engine cooling, the wail of a siren in the distance.

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  • Author Michael Benzehabe
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    Three teen daughters, Sarah, Zoe, and me, holding our tongues, hoping Father will speak, say something comforting, tell us our love will see us through. Anything to end the silence.

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