History Quote by Sarah Ockler

“Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.”

— Sara Teasdale

“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. Essentially,”

— Paul Kleinman

“It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet, ever, anymore.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”

— Andre Gide

“There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.”

— Brock Clarke

“The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.”

— Suzanne Palmieri

“And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

“no words. silence says the things we struggle to say”

— R.H. Sin

“Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over. In that silence I kept hearing what I had said--heard…

— Avi

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“This can happen again. This is happening in other parts of the world now. And you have to speak out. You can’t remain silent.…

— Joe Biden

“For some things, a decent downeast silence was the only good response, at least in the immediate aftermath.”

— Sarah Graves