2,656 Quotes About Silence

Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask.

Revolted and offended, this child was fighting her mother in her head and did not even blink.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Sometimes all we need to be happy is silence. Silence and the stars.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

I was a diligent student with integrity, so I didn't talk to anyone in class and passed the time in silence.

The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still /The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our hearts / It’s been too long /Children are not where they belong /The streets, the playgrounds and the song /Have been waiting for too long…