Best Silences Quotations

122 Silences quotes by 97 unique authors

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made… — Audre Lorde
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even… — C.S. Lewis
In these silences something may rise — Stephen King
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is… — Lyall Watson
There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the… — Anais Nin
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they… — John O'Donohue
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth… — E E Cummings
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and… — Edwin Markham
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences… — Audre Lorde
I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into… — John Ciardi
And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have… — Sue Miller
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Stephane Mallarme
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and… — Miranda July
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my… — Anais Nin
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. — Bell Hooks
There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the… — Margo Lanagan
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on… — Susanna Clarke
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before… — Frederick Buechner
He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally… — Martina Cole
Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about. — Cecelia Ahern
He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read… — Ann Voskamp
For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the… — Khalil Gibran
I think they have compatible silences. — David Levithan

Who Wrote These Silences Quotes

97 authors contributed a total of 122 Silences Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Silences Quotations

More Ways to Read Silences Quotes

Who Wrote These Silences Quotes