Quotes about silence

He doesn’t answer. I can’t stand these little silences from him. They’re too loud.

Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.

But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.

Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don't speak.

Silence is a prince's friend. Words are like arrows ... once loosed, you cannot call them back.

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

Every one of my acts commits me as a man. Every one of my silences, every one of my cowardices reveals me as a man.

One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.

A person’s true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;

not in silence, but restraint.

"Silence is the tortured man's revenge."

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)