“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I’m afraid I’ll stutter.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. There’s how I stand in the lawn, that’s one way. There’s also how I stand in the field across from the street, that’s another way because I’m farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I so…”— Ada Limon, amazon.com
“There are people who are uncomfortable with a silence, who rush to fill it by saying anything, thinking that anything is better than nothing, but I am not one of those people. I am not at all disquieted by silence.”— Peter Cameron, amazon.com
“Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.”— Mark Rothko, theguardian.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
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”— Zora Neale Hurston, amazon.com
“To write is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.”— Marguerite Duras, amazon.com
“We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands.”— Pico Lyer, content.time.com
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”— Abraham Lincoln, goodreads.com