Affection Quote by Emily Dickinson

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

— David Malouf

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,…

— Rumi

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is…

— Ramana Maharshi

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Conversations are an essential part of our daily lives. One cannot imagine life without talking or hearing. But somewhere between the hearing and saying…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

— Theodore Parker

“As Richard Foster explains, “Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech, it always involves the act of listening. Simply to refrain from talking,…

— Richard J. Foster

Silence is also speech

— Proverb

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or…

— Harold Pinter