Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
Isak Dinesen

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Edward Fitzgerald

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

Your silence gives consent.
Plato

Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde