Quote by Mervyn Peake

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. … The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“There is a moment when you realise that no more conversation will fix it. No waiting for the right time. Once clarity arrives, it…

— Anonymous

“you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said.”

— Colum McCann

“We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me…

— Denise Grover Swank

“Clarity emerges from silence, not meetings. You need the silence so you have something worth saying in the meetings.”

— Matthew Kelly

“The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.”

— Christina L. Farley

“sheets, I keep hearing something—or someone—calling, just loud enough to pierce the walls. The voice is surely something more than wind, curling and twisting…

— Victoria Schwab

“Sometimes the silence connects us deeper than words ever will.”

— Steven Aitchison

“A man’s silence can echo louder than his words, especially when it conceals the depths of his heartache.”

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

“He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.”

— Margaret Atwood

“In the stillness the voice inside is louder, much louder, and cannot be ignored.”

— Diane Brown