Keeping Quiet Quotes

“There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“I felt on the verge of talking to her about things I hadn't talked about before. I'd written them. Sometimes I write to keep from going crazy. There's a world of things I don't feel free to talk to anyone about.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“At school I don't tell anyone about church.

At church I don't tell anyone about home.

The neighborhood kids don't know anything about anything else.

The trick is to keep your stories to yourself, so they can't use them against you.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“I don’t like talking much.
And honestly, that’s okay.

Not everyone is built for constant conversation. Some of us observe more than we speak. We listen, we think, we process. Silence is not emptiness ; it’s clarity.

I don’t like talking much.
I don’t trust much either.

It’s not attitude — it’s experience.
I choose my words carefully and my people even more carefully.
Silence protects my peace.
Distance protects my heart.

Those who understand this… stay close. Those who don’t, drift away

I speak when it matters. I share when it feels right.
And the people who understand this… are my kind of people”
― Avijeet Das