“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don’t know how to speak to you. I don’t know what you’re thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you’ve ever said. All the words. Starting from the very first one.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“Filling the empty silences with blabber about nothing. I'm hugely prone to this one - I hate silence, so I chatter through it. Instead of doing that, simply let the silence be.”— Aunt Becky, thestir.cafemom.com
“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.”— Sophia Dembling, amazon.com
“I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”— Franz Wright, amazon.com
“Waiting for someone to notice your problem will never have a positive outcome. If you are excellent at creating a façade, most people will never be aware of your struggle. Waiting on others to help means you are relying on someone to do what you cannot or are not ready to do.”— Adrienne Blane, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes only a calm presence and compassionate listening are necessary.”— Stan Goldberg, nytimes.com
“He is too quiet. Men hate complaining so they are better off saying nothing at all. Perhaps he doesn’t want to hurt your feelings or he hopes he’ll cope with his unhappiness alone. He keeps silent and looks thoughtful.”— Catalina, womenosophy.com
“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Silence. If simply laying there motionless is bad, laying there silently is even worse. Men like to know that they’re pleasing you and their egos can’t handle you lying there without so much as even giving them a grunt or a moan or something.”— Brooke Dean, madamenoire.com
“Remember that time you gave me a black heart instead of black eyes Warped words instead of scraped knees Yet it still hurt, just the same? Remember that time you used your silence to bruise my broken soul, which could’ve just as easily been broken bones Because sometimes contempt hurts even more dee…”— Shahida Arabi, selfcarehaven.wordpress.com
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someon…”— Norton Juster, amazon.com