Silence Quotes

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

Helen Kelle

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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

Saadi

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

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Anon.

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

Jacqui We

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

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

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

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

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.

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

Marcel Marceau

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.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

With silence favor me.

Horace

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

William Rose Benet

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

Confucius

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

C. S. Robinson

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

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

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

Albert Camus

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

Plutarch

With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.

Horace

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

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

Alfred Jarry

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

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

Archibald MacLeish

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

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