We sit in silence for a minute. Thinking about the freedom we don’t have and the future we can’t control.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They’ve never seen an argument. There’s never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end...

I had a dream about you. You were the lead guitarist in a band with no voice, and you were holding auditions for lead singer. Everybody in line in front of me and behind me...

When you’re silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

I aspire only to silence.

Sometimes to make no move is to make the wrong move. That’s how I fell in love with a statue. We just sat still and I formed a connection.

I shot a deaf man. And just to be sure, I used a silencer.

In my silence do I enhance my talents

If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday; we are already in it.

By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, he was still unable to decide.

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it’s not overly sociable if my husband is around!

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence,...

Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable permanence that paintings in museums do.There is a small crack in the lower...

If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won’t need to listen to my words.

Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence.

Parece que os velhos são capazes de ficar sentados um ao lado do outro semdizerem nada e ainda assim satisfeitos. Os jovens, irrequietos e impacientes, têm sempre que quebrar o silêncio. É um desperdício, porque...

I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one...

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.

We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech

Quite often it’s not about what is said, but what isn’t. And even when it’s spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.

I’d rather be not the light in your lifeThe bright day might make me obscureI’d rather be the cold darknessFor it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure

Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter”.

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy’s words.

What do I have to do to convince you that I’m only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit if is necessary,and make him pay for all the things...

Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

is ye. Nothin’ else.

Oír el silencio, dondequiera que esté, es una forma fácil y directa de hacerse presente. Incluso si hay ruido, hay siempre silencio bajo y entre los sonidos.

Silence, like madness, is only comparative.

To be honest, I hate silence.

If at noon you sit down and there’s just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn’t exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for...

Everything was gone, the garden of wind and light, the Chrysalis, the Mother and her sister-crones, the rowan tree, everything. I was in a grove–no, it was a triad of trees: apple, oak, hazel. And...

I never spoke — unless addressed —And then, ’twas brief and low —I could not bear to live — aloud —The Racket shamed me so —And if it had not been so far —And any...

I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs...

I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he...

I would eat my soup in silence, but it’s alphabet soup. They’re all capital letters and they are shouting at me. I’m not anorexic or illiterate, so alphabet soup is like a nourishing novel. An...

On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside plastered bars of light between the slats of the blinds. Not a sound in the village. Down...

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing.

The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation.

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don’t leave until you have captured its essence.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?