Death Quote by Andre Maurois

“Silence explains a lot of things. It tells us why people are who they not supposed to be. It's the fear of being afraid.…

— Tessa Vanluchene

“Silence scares us because it doesn’t seem natural. Sometimes I wonder if we are so afraid of what we might hear in the silence…

— Gareth J. Goossen

Silence is the residue of fear.

— Clint Smith

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

— Anonymous

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

— Morrie Schwartz

“Fear makes you silent when you need to be loud and loud when you need silence.”

— Elizabeth Vaughan

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come…

— Thomas de Quincey

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

— Lucan

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable…

— Thomas Mann

Men fear most what they cannot see.

— Liam Neeson

“People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men”

— Oscar Wilde

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

— Bob Dylan