Silences Quotes

“...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marriage of words—the bride—
and spaces—the groom,
she knows that as soon
as she has penned the poem,
it’s yours to consume.
So, without giving it a think,
she blows on the ink
and the letters fly away
like dandelions on a windy day,
landing on hands and lips,
on hearts and hips.
But more often than not,
you can easily spot
them trodden and forgotten,
becoming sodden and rotten.
Yet, she will continue to make
what’s others to take
because selfishness
is not the mark of a poetess.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Why are there even in my silences?
Why does my loneliness keep talking
about you?”
― Avijeet Das

“Why are you there
even in my silences?
Why does my loneliness
keep talking about you?”
― Avijeet Das

“There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither of us felt any particular need to talk.”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

“You are there with me, aren't you? I and my silences keep talking about you.”
― Avijeet Das

“For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“Our silences, those haunting moments between you and me. Do you remember them the way I do? I visit those alleys often. Do you too?”
― Avijeet Das

“We know the many noises and the many uglinesses of the universe and that’s why we take refuge to the silences and to the beauties!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.”
― David Powning, The Ground Will Catch You

“They were opposites in one way
They were similar in another
But they felt real with each other
They felt alive with each other

They understood their silences
even when one would forget
the other and be busy with work and
struggles of life

And when they finally spoke to
each other, their conversation sparked a
fire in the atmosphere!”
― Avijeet Das

“Some days and nights you just need to listen to her silences. And understand her unsaid words. And just be there for her.”
― Avijeet Das

“these innumerable silences between us have meaning.”
― Avijeet Das

“silences have deeper meaning. silences say more than words ever could.”
― Avijeet Das

“We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us!”
― Avijeet Das

“Silences of my days
Silences of my wanderings
Silences of my nights
Silences of my loneliness

Silences of my work
Silences of my insanity
Silences of my dreams
Silences of my craziness


Silences of my passions
Silences of my reading
Silences of my obsessions
Silences of my writing


Silences of my thoughts
Silences of my pondering
Silences of my emotions
Silences of my aching

Silences of my stares
Silences of my pining
Silences of my feelings
Silences of my longing

Silences where I truly live
My Silences
Leave me to my silences...”
― Avijeet Das

“Over each year, the pauses in his sentences had elongated themselves to become silences. The silences eventually stopped punctuating conversations, and the conversations became silences punctuated with words.”
― Kiran Manral, Missing, Presumed Dead

“The silence of the forest is different; the silence of the desert is different; the silence of the cave is different! Silences in different places are not the same silences because silence is not only the absence of the sounds but also it is the presence of different feelings in the absence of the sounds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“silences have deeper meaning. i like silences. i talk to my silences. i inhale the myriad fragrances of silences. these silences know me well. these silences find me when i need them. silences are profound. silences are eloquent. silences are deep. silences are my symphony. there is a charm of these silences. i know these silences well. silences say more than words ever could.”
― Avijeet Das

“If you have forgotten the eternal peace of silence, go to a place where silence is in infinite stillness and feel that eternal peace again in your whole soul!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There are occasions when the silence speaks, and speech is silent”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“My work is to inhabit the silences with which I have lived and fill them with myself until they have the sounds of brightest day and the loudest thunder. And then there will be no room left inside of me for what has been except as memory of sweetness enhancing what can and is to be.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“You entered my life as quietly as the morning mist, and just as silently, you slipped away. I cherish every moment we shared, but your departure has left me broken. Now, I’ll spend the rest of my days picking up the pieces, trying to rebuild and complete myself again.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“Silences of my days
Silences of my wanderings
Silences of my nights
Silences of my loneliness

Silences of my work
Silences of my insanity
Silences of my dreams
Silences of my craziness


Silences of my passions
Silences of my reading
Silences of my obsessions
Silences of my writing


Silences of my thoughts
Silences of my pondering
Silences of my emotions
Silences of my aching

Silences of my stares
Silences of my pining
Silences of my feelings
Silences of my longing

Silences where I live
My Silences...
My Silences...”
― Avijeet Das, The Black Mask in Thamel: Ravish's Journey into the Unknown

“I don't socialize. I don't network. I hate parties. I love my solitude. I love my loneliness. I am living life fulfilling my responsibilities. I love wandering. I love silences.”
― Avijeet Das

“Everything becomes a story. The conversations that I have, and the moments that I spend with people around me. The moments of silences that I have in my day to day life. The sudden wanderings that I have in my weekends. The dreams that I dream. The thoughts that I think. Everything becomes a poem or a story in my life.”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“Love is when you can understand each other's silences.”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“I don't know whom to talk and what to say. My silences know me well.”
― Avijeet Das

“My silences give meaning to my life.”
― Avijeet Das

“My silences come walking on tiptoes and sit with me for a conversation.”
― Avijeet Das