Quotes about silence

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

Netherton said nothing, something he’d only recently been learning to deliberately do.

Everything is to be acquired in stillness, and in the silence of the divine. It is not only of Psyche's future child it holds that its future depends on her silence.

Because often, silence is best.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Least said soonest mended, because less chance of breaking.

A miracle that he was even speaking, and then to say what he had said. Usually you hear only about the things that excited people, never about what silenced them. (from "Tales of Artemis")

You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning.

We lived in the shadows, our voices silenced by fear, until one day we realized that silence was no longer an option.

Gathering himself together, he asked the dwarf, “Was all this in some way planned and predetermined?”

Gaskarth turned upon the young man a thoughtful gaze. “There are those who say that all is planned, to the placement of the last mote and mite. There are others who say that nothing is purposed, and that the galaxies themselves swing where they will. And then there are some, like me, who prefer to walk on, saying as little as possible.”