S Quotes
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“Silence isn’t always golden. It causes tension & leaves too much room for assumptions. Silence doesn't make you avoid an argument, but rather escalates it. Silence might cause relationship-erosion if the issues that are withheld in silence never get worked out.”
“Silence isn’t empty—it echoes with everything we choose not to hear.”
“Silence isn’t empty. It’s where we learn who we are when no one is pulling on our heart.”
Source: Legacy of Avoidance: A Journal For Those Learning To Stay When Love Feels Unsafe
“Silence isn’t neutral—it’s betrayal. When politicians, community leaders, and ordinary citizens ignore, allow, or cheer on lies, they aren’t just complicit. They’re worse than the liars themselves. Stand up. Speak out.”
“Silence isn’t peace. Sometimes, it’s the warning before everything collapses.”
Source: DARK DAY: When the Systems Went Silent
“Silence isn’t the answer—the true path is knowing when and how to speak.”
“Silence isn’t the same as peace.”
Source: Star Wars: Rebel Rising
“Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.”
Source: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven
“Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.”
“Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible. Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Alive! He had often felt its austere approach before; when it came it burst in without subtlety, evidently unable to wait. The silence of the world could not rein back its greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Silence
It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It's ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It's golden they say.
But no one tells us it's addictive.”
“Silence itself could be used as deftly and cruelly as a kire”
Source: The Lie Tree
“Silence kills a story.”
“Silence kills scandal.”
“Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.”
“Silence lay between them like an agony.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Silence leads to acceptance, which leads to liberation. All of our conditioning is then suspended; so, too, are morals, manners, even simple courtesy. Dogmas, rules, commandments, churches, political parties, opinions, doctrines, ideologies, and gurus fall away. All that remains is reality. All that remains is truth. How free we suddenly feel!”
Source: The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
“Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.”
Source: Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change
“Silence, like madness, is only comparative.”
Source: Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
“Silence, like salt, only seems to be weightless. In reality, if one allows time to dampen it, it grows heavy as an anvil.”
“Silence looks like strength—until it looks like a cover-up.”
Source: The Illusion Of Control: And the Hidden Dangers of Silence in Leadership
“Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.”
Source: The Story of Beautiful Girl
“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
“Silence makes me feel vulnerable.”
“Silence makes me think of god and dream about his presence at the most.”
“Silence may avoid fights, but it builds walls. At first, it feels like peace, no arguments, no tension. But slowly, that silence turns into distance. You stop explaining, they stop asking, and one day, there’s nothing left to say at all. The connection fades, not because of anger, but because both hearts stopped trying. Sometimes, silence doesn’t protect a relationship; it ends it quietly. So talk, even when it’s hard. Because honest words heal more than unspoken ones ever will.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“Silence may be golden but when you whisper with desire in my ear.....the world goes mute~”
“Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?”
“Silence may be their preferred language, but the quiet echoes of unanswered messages provide a blank canvas for the artistry of patience to create masterpieces of comprehension. The gallery of unheard words gives me - comfort. Because we recognize that the deepest talks are sometimes the darkest conversations. We hold our breath as we wait for responses that are loudly whispered.”
“Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.”
“Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.”
Source: Healology
“Silence might build cathedrals," a whisper echoed through the canyon, "but only dialogue paints their windows with sun.”
“Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside. And then when the startled dust had settled down about Montag's mind, Faber began, softly,
"All right, he's had his say. You must take it in. I'll say my say, too, in the next hours. And you'll take it in. And you'll try to judge them and make your decisions as to which way to jump, or fall. But I want it to be your decision, not mine, and not the Captain's. But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Silence moves faster when it's going backward.”
Source: Three screenplays: L'Eternel retour, Orphée, La Belle et la bête
“Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.”
“Silence never makes any blunders.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“Silence Never
Silence never healed the lonely.
Silence never comforted the broken hearted.
Silence never saved a life.
Silence never won an argument with kindness.
Silence never healed the poor.
Silence never learned compassion.
Silence never saw the pain in another.
Silence never asked for forgiveness.
Silence never felt remorse.
Silence never felt empathy.
Silence never grew up.
Silence never listened to promptings.
Silence never resolved a problem.
Silence never had closure.
Silence never had a conscience.
Silence never developed integrity.
Silence never knew manners.
Silence never learned respect.
Silence never matured.
Silence never understood that the bible and its stories was God’s way of saying, “Stop being silent and start healing one another.”
Silence never realized that Christ was an activist for communication.”
“Silence never yet betrayed any one!”
“Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.”
“Silence of dissent creates change at the behest of those who do not stay silent.”
“Silence of loneliness and silence of togetherness look the same, but they feel worlds apart.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Silence Of The Lambs is a fantastic film. It's a horror film, and it's an incredibly well-told film that is about point of view in such a unique way. The way that film is shot, the way the eyelines are so close, if not directly into camera, betrays an intimacy with the characters and the audience.”
“Silence of the Waves
My dear, did you remember the star when the night fell to greet you? Trying to hear a whisper, who is there calling your name? God? Or any human?
For decades I searched the sea only to remember the sound of the waves, and then I composed a dream palace from grains of sand on the beach. But what a pity, the wind so quickly made it pass.
Miss longing for foam, scrambling to kiss your white marble legs.
Once, we met on the beach. Even though it's only once. After that, all memories are peeled away like a shadow. Together with the sun, which drifted toward the evening. A blurry portrait that stammers keeps memories, clutches of the wind and a faint smile on your lips.
A wound in my heart, like a trickle of rain that hardens, becomes pointed at the needle in time. Lost direction, unable to determine the wind. The silent wing flap interpreted the dream once more, in the face of my lover increasingly blurred face.
In the distance.
When they were busy, they worked on the waves, catching wounds that never healed all over their bodies. Limp hands stretching the pain of a heart. A broken moon that was painstakingly storing crushed flakes of a thorn. Endlessly.”
“Silence of unbearable broken will brings to your life unbearable enemy.”
“Silence often carries the emotions words cannot express.”
Source: When the sky forgot my name