Saying Nothing Quotes

“He marveled at the poetry of Emily Dickinson, sensing her kindred spirit. For the last seventeen years of her life, Dickinson rarely left her home in Massachusetts and spoke to visitors only through a partially closed door. "Saying nothing, " she wrote, "sometimes says the most.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“Silence cannot be mispronounced, Silence cannot be misinterpreted, silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words