2,656 Quotes About Silence

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Growth is silent, but fall creates a huge noise

Silence is nice to have if you wanted it, but maddening if you didn't.

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a ‘fun’ idea to hang someone over the cliff ... me!

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining.

You don’t have to say anything.”He sat back in his chair. “I won’t. As always, words fail when you mostwant to say the right thing.”“People think they have to say something, and it never makes me feel better.