Silence Quotes

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

George Orwell

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

Martha Grimes, from Hotel Paradise, a novel

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

John Viscount Morley

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.

Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.

H. G. Mendelson

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...

Jacqui We

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

John Lah

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Anon.

With silence favor me.

Horace

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.

Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles De Gaulle

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti