“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Not only are women expected to weather sexual violence, intimate partner violence, workplace discrimination, institutional subordination, the expectation of free domestic labor, the blame for our own victimization, and all the subtler, invisible cuts that undermine us daily, we are not even allowed…”— Lindy West, nytimes.com
“I understand why we don’t talk anymore. But it doesn’t make me miss you any less.”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“..solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.”— Pablo Neruda, poetsofmodernity.xyz
“To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.com
“Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.”— Clairabelle Ann, goodreads.com
“I am not afraid of an argument. Get emotional. Get angry. Spit language venom. Be unrelenting and cruel with your words if you feel you have to be. Because above all else I am terrified of the silence. Of things becoming so passionless between us there is no longer anything left worth fighting for.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“When Jesus was nailed to the cross — and hung there in torment - he cried out — "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ w…”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“For black women, silence is often equatable to death. We go through enough silencing, suppression and harassment over our voices day in and day out.”— Clarkisha Kent, theroot.com
“Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”— Henning Mankell, amazon.com
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”— Madeleine Albright, goodreads.com
“I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.”— George Eliot, amazon.com
“I don't go into town anymore. I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why. When I speak, women fall sick and stars drop like dead birds from the night. My home, instead, is on a ridge where horses bow their heads and bear the elements. Alone, I conduct experiments. I communicate with st…”— Austen Leah Rosenfeld, narrativemagazine.com
“In grief, words are poor consolation - silence & agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.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