„We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences.“

„Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.“

—  Robertson Davies, libro The Rebel Angels

Fuente: The Rebel Angels

„God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.“

—  José Saramago Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 - 2010

Deus é o silêncio do universo, e o homem o grito que dá um sentido a esse silêncio.
Lanzarote Notebooks (1990), quoted in The Notebook, entry for 9 October 2008.

„There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.“

—  Cecelia Ahern Irish novelist 1981

„Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories“

—  Ben Okri Nigerian writer 1959

Fuente: Birds of Heaven

„This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.“

—  Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

Vol. II, p. 30
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Contexto: Attention involves seeing and hearing. We hear not only with our ears but also we are sensitive to the tones, the voice, to the implication of words, to hear without interference, to capture instantly the depth of a sound. Sound plays an extraordinary part in our lives: the sound of thunder, a flute playing in the distance, the unheard sound of the universe; the sound of silence, the sound of one’s own heart beating; the sound of a bird and the noise of a man walking on the pavement; the waterfall. The universe is filled with sound. This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.

„While the children laughed
I was always afraid
Of the Smile of the clown
So I close my eyes
Till I can't see the light
And I hide from the sound

We're two of a Kind
Silence and I
We need a chance to talk things over
Two of a kind
Silence and I“

—  Alan Parsons audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England 1948

"Silence and I", from the album Eye In The Sky. (Written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.)
Quotes from songs

„Silence is argument carried out by other means.“

—  Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967

As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile
Variante: Silence is argument carried out by other means.

„Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.“

—  Margaret Atwood, libro The Robber Bride

Fuente: The Robber Bride

„Silence creates its own violence.“

—  Jeff VanderMeer, libro Aniquilación

Fuente: Annihilation

„true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

„The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.“

—  Walter Elliot American priest 1842 - 1928

„The spiritual life must find its origin in silence.“

—  Skye Jethani

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

„Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.“

—  Hazrat Inayat Khan Indian Sufi 1882 - 1927

„A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.“

—  Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959

Emily Dickinson http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/emily-dickinson-5/
From the poems written in English

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

—  Yukio Mishima, libro Thirst for Love

Fuente: Thirst for Love

„In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning.“

—  Robert Penn Warren American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905 - 1989

"True Love"
Contexto: In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed,
Freckled. In a big black Buick,
Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat
In front of the drugstore, sipping something
Through a straw. There is nothing like
Beauty. It stops your heart. It
Thickens your blood. It stops your breath. It
Makes you feel dirty. You need a hot bath.
I leaned against a telephone pole, and watched.
I thought I would die if she saw me.

„Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.“

—  Amit Ray Indian author 1960

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

„Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of trees is almost a crime
For it is a kind of silence about injustice!“

—  Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898 - 1956

A response to the Nazi book burnings, in "To Posterity" (1939) as translated by H. R. Hays (1947)
Contexto: Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not
Always spoken the truth in my books? And now
You treat me like a liar! I order you:
Burn me!
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For ordinary men.
Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of trees is almost a crime
For it is a kind of silence about injustice!

„Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.“

—  Marion L. Starkey American historian & writer 1901 - 1991

Fuente: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 18, “The Ghost of Mary Esty” (p. 215)