Blight Quote by Joseph Conrad

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

— Joseph Conrad

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking,…

— Glen Duncan

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

— Maggie Stiefvater

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

— George Eliot

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it…

— Alice Hoffman

That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more…

— Thomas Hardy

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

— David James Duncan

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

— Suzanne Finnamore