Silence Quote by Issac Marion

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

— Isaac Marion

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

“Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of…

— Anne Carson

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disseverment,…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Theodore Parker

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

— Marya Hornbacher

[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived…

— Audre Lorde

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Many have suffered by talking, few by silence.

— Vikrant Parsai

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

— Morrie Brickman

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never…

— Maxim Gorky

“Patients, when hearing the news, mostly remain mute. (One of the early meanings of patient, after all, is “one who endures hardship without complaint.”)”

— Paul Kalanithi