Silence Quote by Nicole Williams

“My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..”

— Hisham Matar

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of…

— Stephen King

“A pause. It might have been pregnant. I’ve never been sure how to tell if a silence has conceived or not.”

— Lois Greiman

“What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.”

— Don DeLillo

“Silence was not good.”

— Rose Wynters

“Silence—people are afraid of it—they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don’t feel any such need.…

— Henry Martin

“Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“One moment of unwelcomed silence is more disheartening than a lifetime of incessant screams. And the silence deafens me.”

— Scott Hildreth

“Discomfort Many of us are uncomfortable with silence, so we compensate by filling that silence with words.”

— Bill McGowan

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to feel. the…

— Peter Tieryas

“Silence only harms when there are things that aren’t being said, or when there’s the fear that the well is empty and there’s nothing…

— David Levithan