Silence Quotes
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?Steven Wright
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
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
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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 will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.H. G. Mendelson
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.Pam Brown
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.Steven Wright
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
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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.
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.Beckett
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
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
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
Nothing is more useful than silence.Menande
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
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
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
