Silence Quotes

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

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

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

Albert Camus

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Helen Kelle

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Hellen Kelle

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

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

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Menande

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.

Steven Wright

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

Marcel Marceau

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

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

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

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

C. S. Robinson

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

H. G. Mendelson

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

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Charles Simic

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

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.

Pam Brown

Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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.

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

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Plutarch