We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.”

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being…

— Eugene Kennedy

When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye…

— Jack Driscoll

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

“Children can’t respond properly to warnings if they don’t hear them clearly in the first place. Finally,”

— Thomas W. Phelan

“All that what left was the voice inside, and I could hear it clearly. It didn’t have to yell- it whispered, and said to…

— Gerard Way

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down…

— David Steindl-Rast

Real creativity comes only out of silence.

— Rajneesh

“The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...”

— Geoff Ryman

I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.

— Jason Becker

“Music comes out of silence and at the end it goes back to it. It's a journey. You see?”

— Rachel Joyce

“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.”

— Adrienne Rich

God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.

— Mother Meera

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

— Martin Luther King, Jr