2,656 Quotes About Silence

The most interesting people to listen to are those who do not wish to speak.

The negative propaganda of silence is probably more effective as an instrument of persuasion and mental regimentation than speech. Silence creates the condition in which such words as are spoken or written take most effect.

Strain your ears to be sure I’m here. Say my name and I disappear.

Silence will help you see rightly between truth and lie and to walk towards to the deeper knowledge.

It's over when you have a thousand things to say but you prefer silence.

The metal door began to roll open as she held her breath. Its parts creaked like the bones of a giant roused from his slumber, like a Lazarus that had hidden his flaming heart within fireproof walls, patiently sleeping as the comatose do.The smell hit her first. Mold. Dampness. Cold lifeless things.Within, there was a darker sort of silence, as if the building had been holding its breath for so long it had forgotten how to breathe.

Silence is sometimes better than someone speaking before they're ready. That is how lies slip out.

It’s amazing how few words a person can get by with.

This may be the real reason many of us fear silence in church—because anyone sitting near us may hear the hissing, rumbling, wheezing sounds of a living human being, which do not match up with the attractive countenances that we work so hard to present to one another.