There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

...because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.

Whose silence are you?

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

Silence can mock.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Otherwise, he'd have found the ruin empty, and then, somehow, very quietly and almost naturally, he would have died.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”

"If people were silent nothing would change."

"My love, I fear the silence of your hands."

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

“Silence is always the problem. Deciding not to say what you feel creates what researchers call “cognitive dissonance” between what you truly believe (in your heart) and what you actually do in the moment. Those problems build up and, over time, they can break your relationship.” 

"Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence."