He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get…

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

— Peter Ackroyd

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

— Frank Darabont

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear…

— Terry Pratchett

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

— Bell Hooks

Love is the voice under all silences.

— E E Cummings

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You…

— Anais Nin

A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's…

— Thurston Clarke

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no…

— John Henrik Clarke

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

— David Steinberg

“Because death is the end, and if a man doesn’t speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.”

— Greg Iles

“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”

— Robin Hobb

In these silences something may rise

— Stephen King

I want to let all men and women know: Try going to a party or a dinner where you're completely fine with silences, and…

— Rhea Seehorn

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

— Samuel Beckett