Silence Quotes
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.Archibald Mc Leish
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
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
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
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.Peter Minard
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Silence is a friend who will never betray.Confucius
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
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
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.Seneca
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
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
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
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.Benjamin Franklin
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.Albert Camus
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 deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
