“It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
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“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”
"Silence"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

On how her viewpoint has changed since releasing the album Baduizm in “In Conversation: Erykah Badu” https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/erykah-badu-in-conversation.html in New York Magazine (Jan 2018)

“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”
Source: Solipsist

Speaking on Stossel http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/ (2009).
Context: Words are supposed to hurt. That's considered a legitimate way of fighting things out. And what did it replace in the historical scene? It replaced actual violence. Words are supposed to be free so we CAN actually fight things out, in the battleplace of ideas, so we don't end up fighting them out in civil wars. If we try to legitimately ban anything can hurt someone's feelings, everyone is reduced to silence.

OM Chanting and Meditation (2010) http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/OM_Chanting_and_Meditation.html?id=3KKjPoFmf4YC,

44 : God Alone Is, p. 74.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”
La mort rapproche autant qu’elle sépare, elle fait taire les passions mesquines.
Part II, ch. LVII
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)