2,656 Quotes About Silence

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

Silence cannot be mispronounced, Silence cannot be misinterpreted, silence cannot be misquoted.

I am a believer in silence. The value of silence. The power of silence. The space that isn’t an absence but a presence. A pause that is bigger than the noise that surrounds it. A gap that is a mirror. A gulf that is a bridge. The emptiness that is rejuvenating. The space that is full of more than it could ever contain.

The silenceIs like moonlightIn one thing:That it hides nothing.

We used to hear the stars, too. When people stopped talking, there was silence. Now you could shut every mouth on the planet and there’d still be a hum. Air-conditioning groaning from the vent beside you. Semi trucks hissing on a highway miles away. A plane complaining ten thousand feet above you. Silence is an extinct word. It bothers you, doesn’t it?

Your silence is a little black garden. You know everything there by heart.

The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague

Be quiet if you want to talk to silence!

It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.