“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”— C. S. Lewis, goodreads.com
“Books don’t prattle. Books don’t make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It’s a very satisfying partnership.”— Carol Berg, amazon.com
“I am missing you most in the silence between songs on my favourite records. Sometimes it takes so long for the music to start.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly…”— William Alexander Percy, amazon.com
“Silence doesn’t always mean you have nothing to say. It may mean you realize that words aren’t always necessary.”— Hart Ramsey, twitter.com
“Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say.”— Hannah Brencher, amazon.com
“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“In the world I am. Always a stranger. I do not understand its language. It does not understand my silence.”— Bei Dao, goodreads.com
“I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.”— Sadegh Hedayat, azquotes.com
“The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.”— Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com