“Silence is so accurate.”

“Silence is so freaking loud”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”

Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist

“The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“It is so sweet to hear His voice in silence, so sweet indeed.”

Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community

“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

“Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces