“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”— Harvey Fierstein, goodreads.com
“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”— Muriel Spark, amazon.com
“Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.”— Ali ibn Abi Talib, goodreads.com
“You’re told that you’re in your head too much, a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there’s another word for such people: thinkers.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com
“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“It’s become as natural and right to be alone and silent that I don’t know how I can shift over to company.”— Martha Gellhorn, amazon.com
“When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.”— Elliott Kay, goodreads.com