2,656 Quotes About Silence

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are still afraidSo it is better to speakrememberingwe were never meant to survive

We think that those we spend the most time with know us.Yet some only notice our presence when we leave.Look for the ones that wait for your footsteps in the silence.These are the ones longing to hear the echoes of your heartbeat strum their soul.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Two friends raised their heads up to the sky on a dark evening.-Look at the stars.--Let us make a wish.They each took a moment of silence.-What did you wish for?--For you to have peace with your wish.

A quiet woman is a firearm with a silencer.