Silence about a thing just magnifies it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
