Silence Quotes

Silence does good to the soul.

My heart has a history of silent catastrophes.

Like all great stories it started with a kiss and ended with a long and slow goodbye that went silent – in the end.

You were never good at words. So I tried to learn silence.

When you’re comfortable with someone you love, silence is the best.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing that is a friend who cares.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Worship her for the way she rolls her sleeves up and hums the silence of healing.

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.