2,656 Quotes About Silence

People speak for two reasons, One, they speak to express what is in their mind. Second, and more often, they speak to hide something that silence might otherwise reveal.

The house was quiet when he got inside. Why wouldn't it be?He was alone.

We both keep quiet. Again.Today just seems like a day for it. It’s easier that way. You don’t have to say things you don’t want to say because once the words are out, you’ll have to confront them.Confront your insecurities. Confront your fears.Confront yourself. I think that one, the last one, is the hardest.

By the time you have described a moment in words, it has passed away. Instead of talking about dead moments, let us birth a new moment in silence.

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible.

Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations.

God's silence is an answer itself.

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.