I'd rather be not the light in your lifeThe bright day might make me obscureI'd rather be the cold darknessFor it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints.

I didn't know silence could be that loud.

Your silence is loudest to those who love you most.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong -- who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.