2,656 Quotes About Silence

Sometimes, God’s silence is a challenge for us to act

I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing end, so be it. Losing meant quiet, and forgetting quickly, and giving up nothing of any real worth to me. I did not debate restaurant bills, politics, wrongly delivered mail, divorces. These things were officiously loud, and silence was always best.

It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.

Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst things because you need to keep them like mist. Words are dangerous. Like a spell, if you name the mist, call out all of the words that describe it sharp and clear, you turn it solid, into something that no one should ever hold in their hands. Better that it stays like water, slipping between your fingers.

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

Great silence precedes great vision.

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence.

Quotes are good for either getting conversations started... or calling us back to silence.