What does it mean when two people go silent? Is it good or bad? Find out with these relationship silence quotes!
Top 30 Relationship Silence Quote
1. “Some hearts understand each other even in silence.” — Yasmin Mogahed
2. “He who does not understand our silence will probably not understand your words.” — Elbert Hubbard
3. “When two people understand each other, what wonderful things they can convey in silence.” — John Faniel Barry
4. “Between what is said and not meant and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.” — Khalil Gibran
5. “Don’t waste words with people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.” — Mandy Hale
6. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” — Rumi
7. “Your silence is loudest to those who love you the most.” — Steve Maraboli
8. “We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.” — Ram Dass
9. “Just close your eyes and come and meet me in that place where we can share the music of our silence.” ― Mimi Novic
10. “Sometimes silence can be beautiful. But you should try to communicate openly with your loved ones and pour your heart into the ears of understanding.” ― Mwanandeke Kindembo
11. “In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is a misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” — Henry David Thoreau
12. “Prayer means that in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.” — Anne Lamott
13. “Life’s deepest feelings are often expressed in silence and the one who can read volumes from your silence is your true companion.” — Ritu Ghatourey
14. “A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” — Shannon L. Alder
15. “Silence is holy. It draws people closer together. Because those who are comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.” — Nicholas Sparks
16. “We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we’d suffered in the other’s absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn’t want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.” — Richelle Mead
17. “Fall in love with someone who is comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.” — Clairabelle Ann
18. “Silence (in a relationship) is never your friend. Communication is the pathway to healing and growth.” — Ilya Atani
19.“Silence brings beauty out which you have not seen in your lover before.” — Dina Husseini
20.“In the silence of love you will find the Spark of life.” — Rumi
21. “Silence falls, pulsing with the truth of what I’ve learned and what Dean has yet to acknowledge. Our relationship, our love, cannot and will never be perfect. It will, however, always belong only to us in all its flawed, intense beauty. Perfect in its very imperfection.” ― Nina Lane
22. “When silence is used as a weapon, it can wound even more than words.” — Jill Thrussell
23. “There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.” — Wallis Simpson
24. “Being quiet does not mean passivity. It means being more tolerant, understanding, and focused.” — Remez Sasson
25. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” — Ranata Suzuki
26. “I prefer not to elaborate on the various stages of our dealings over the next few days – disbelief, anger, recrimination, the raking up of old sores, bitter silence, and so on – but I can say that they gave lasting strength to our relationship like a thick scar is stronger than the skin around it.” — John Mole
27. “Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.” — Jeff Hood
28. “My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.” — Anna White
29. “I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions …” — Carew Papritz
30. “The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.” — Kathryn Michaels
Profound Relationship Silence Quotes
You can choose to be silent for many different reasons. These love quotes about silence in a relationship explain why words are sometimes not enough.
1. “Silence is the most powerful scream.”
2. “The right words are effective, but the right pauses win your wars.”
3. “No response is a response. And it’s a powerful one.”
4. “Sometimes, the most meaningful things are found through silence.”
5. “Never mistake a woman’s silence for weakness.”
6. “Every silence speaks a thousand words in itself.”
7. “Being silent is better than a mere argument. Sometimes words fail to assert their importance and silence does in its way.”
8. “A woman’s silence says it all. Her silence & lack of expression means that she’s reached her breaking point!”
9. “A comfortable silence between two people often means a strong sense of trust.”
10. “Silence is a girl’s loudest cry. You know she’s really hurt when she starts ignoring you.”
11. “Don’t force someone to remember you all the time. Just stay silent and let them realize how they will be without you in their life.”
12. “When a woman is silent, listen to her very carefully.”
13. “When a woman no longer gets frustrated and upset with you, you can almost guarantee that she doesn’t care anymore. Silence is deadly.”
14. “Sometimes, silence can be fatal. When one could speak the truth but refrain could be the cause of many unfortunate events.”
15. “My silence is my weapon.”
16. “The best threat is silence. Why bluster and shout when one can just stare coldly mute, letting the other person feel uncomfortable?”
17. “The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.”
18. “Sometimes during a moment of silence…you get to hear everything.”
19. “The ‘silent treatment’ solves no problems…it only makes more.”
20. “Words can hurt one’s feelings. But silence, it can damage a person.”
21. “Sometimes, you just have to stay silent, because no words can explain what’s going on in your mind and heart.”
22. “Sometimes we maintain silence to protect a beautiful relation, but what we forget is, too much silence can create distance in every beautiful relation.”
23. “Silence isn’t empty. Sometimes it’s full of pain and unanswered questions.”
24. “When you are in love the silence of your partner is the greatest torture.”
25. “Place a hand over your heart and stay silent; you will hear the one you love the most.”
26. “The space between two people can only be permeated by silence and not words.”
27. “The most troublesome thing is limiting your voice.”
28. “Sometimes silence is the best way to let someone know they did you wrong.”
29. “Never respond to rudeness. When people are rude to you, they reveal who they are, not who you are.”
30. “Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won’t have regrets.”
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31. “When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.” — Elizabeth Eulberg
32. “Only a fool can choose petty words over beautiful silence.”
33. “Laughter will always be the best medicine, silence will always be the best revenge, and love will always be all you need.”
34. “Silence and smile are two powerful tools. Smiling is the way to solve many problems and silence is the way to avoid many problems.”
35. “I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.” — Mary Ann Shaffer
34. “Silence is the best way to react while angry.”
35. “It’s a shame when the things that are on your mind and in your heart never reach your lips.”
36. “Sometimes I don’t tell you what I’m feeling, because I’m hoping the silence between us would give you a clue.”
37. “Words can squeeze your heart but silence can tear you apart.”
38. “Some of the cruelest lies are told in silence.”
39. “The most dangerous animal in the world is a silent smiling woman.”
40. “I love your silences, they are like mine.” — Anaïs Nin
41. “Silent tears hold the loudest pain.”
42. “Sometimes silent love makes the best relationship.”
43. “The eyes – those silent tongues of love.”
45. “Sometimes you have to stay silent because no words can explain what’s going on in your mind and heart.”
46. “If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.” — Saint Augustine
47. “Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.”
Most Touching & Inspirational Relationship Silence Quotes
1. “Interior silence is the sole most important key to building a genuine, strong, and lasting relationship.”
2. “There is beauty in everything. Even in silence and darkness.” — Hellen Keller
3. “There are numerous fruitful couples on the planet, and every one of them knows the significance of quietness.”
4. “Silence heals, silence soothes, silence comforts, silence purifies, silence revitalizes us.” — Dada J. P. Vaswani
5. “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” — Napoleon Hill
6. “At least if I keep my love a secret, he and I can still have this wonderful, odd, exciting relationship where I love him in silence and pretend he’s loving me in silence too.” — Katy Evans
7. “Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won’t have regrets.”
8. “In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” — Abraham Lincoln
9. “Sometimes the person viewing you from afar, loving you in silence, is the only one capable of loving you the greatest.”
10. “Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.” — Thomas Carlyle
11. “Empathize with silence by listening to the feelings and needs behind it.” — Marshall Bertram Rosenberg
12. “It’s only in silence that you can judge your relationship to a person.” ― Dorothy Richardson
13. “Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence can break your heart.”
14. “Silence is a source of great strength.” — Lao Tzu
15. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr
16. “Silence doesn’t always equate to suffering. There are times when one needs silence in order to listen to the needs of their souls.”
17. “There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is the relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.” ― Linda Hogan
18. “Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.” — Lance Morrow
19. “Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.” — Euripides
20. “Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.” — Mohammad Ali
21. “Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.” — Deepak Chopra
22. “You can always tell how important something is by the degree of silence involved.”
23. “Silence is an argument carried out by other means.” — Che Guevara
24. “Some people cannot stand silence for it is when in this state of sound can they hear their own soul cry in torment.”
25. “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” — Albert Einstein
26. “We need silence to be able to touch souls.” — Mother Teresa
27. “Beware of the silent snake for it is the deadliest of all.”
28. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson Gentry
29. “Silence is sometimes the best answer.” — Dalai Lama
30. “Some people hurt by words, some by action and some by silence. But the biggest hurt is someone ignoring us when we value them a lot.”
31. “My love for you is infinitely greater than mere words can describe which is why I have fallen silent.” — Wald Wassermann
32. “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” — Benjamin Franklin
33. “Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.” — Annie Besant
34. “I was quiet but I was not blind.” — Jane Austen
35. “A promise without words is a thousand times better than a promise without heart.”
36. “Silence can have tremendous healing power, but this should not be confused with loneliness.” ― Itayi Garande
37. “Silence is always golden but it becomes imitation junk when communication breaks between relationships.” ― Amit Abraham
38. “Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.” — Socrates
39. “Sometimes it’s better to let the silence do the talking.”
40. “Wise people are not always silent, but they know when to be.”
41. “Have the maturity to know that sometimes silence is more powerful than having the last word.” — Thema Bryant Davis
42. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” — William S. Burrough
43. “Silence is a gift. Learn to value its essence.”
44. “In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” ― Rumi
45. “If you want to find God, find Silence. God always loves peace.”
46. “Silence and smiles are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems and Silence is the way to avoid many problems.”
47. “You hesitate to stab me with a sword, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.” — Samuel Johnson
48. “Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.” — Jodi Picoult
49. “The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.” — Marianne Moore
50. “Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.” — Rumi
51. “Silence is beautiful. But sometimes what makes us feel loved are words of comfort by someone we love.” ― Garima Soni
52. “It is nobler by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.” ― Francis Beaumon
53. “My silence could mean that you are not worth the argument.”
54. “Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.” — Mark Helprin
55. “Arguments can be won when you learn that words are weaker than silence.”
56. “Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
57. “Only a man of inner silence becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet.” — Rajneesh
58. “When you build in silence, they don’t know what to attack.”
59. “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” — Octavia Butler
60. “Through the portals of silence, the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.” — Paramahansa Yogananda
61. “The innocent is the person who explains nothing.” — Albert Camus
62. “When something important is going on, silence is a lie.” — A. M. Rosenthal
63. “In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is a misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” — Henry David Thoreau
64. “Silence is the strong weapon used in the battle of agony.”
65. “Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.” — Myrtle Reed
66. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” — Blaise Pascal
67. “Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.” — Charles Caleb Colton
68. “Many times in life I’ve regretted the things I’ve said without thinking. But I’ve never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.” — Lisa Kleypas
69. “Love is an emotion, totally silent and inexpressible with words.” — Rumi
70. “Silent as despairing love and strong as jealousy.” — William Blake
71. “The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.” — Karen Marie Moning
72. “Silence is better than unmeaning words.” — Pythagoras
73. “Silence about a thing just magnifies it.” —Tennessee Williams
To Wrap Up
As you can see from these relationship silence quotes, quiet moments between two people can mean many things.
Silence is neither good nor bad – it can be both.
Pay attention and listen carefully to the soundless voice, for it can reveal the greatest secrets.
Until next time!