Silence Quotes

We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Albert Camus

The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

Author Unknown

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

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

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Saadi

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Marcel Marceau

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles De Gaulle

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gough

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blai

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

John Viscount Morley

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

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

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm

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

Marcel Marceau

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

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

Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Menande

With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.

Horace

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walke

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry