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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

— Anonymous

There's an unspoken understanding that comes when you communicate through nothing but pure silence.

— Dru Stone

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

— Anne Rice

“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary…

— Georges Bataille

“If don't understand my silence then you can't understand my words.”

— Jomo kp

“If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.”

— Ireno

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“He seemed not to know the uses of silence.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Because death is the end, and if a man doesn’t speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.”

— Greg Iles

“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”

— Mia Sheridan

“They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.”

— Georges Rodenbach