2,656 Quotes About Silence

It still remains special as it’s forgotten, the more I tried to recollect, the more elusive it grew — like the golden deer that enchanted Sita.

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.

She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

Respect the people strong enough to speak out in a world that shows us it’s to our benefit to remain silent.

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.