Silence Quotes
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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 propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.Alfred Jarry
Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.Margaret Lee Runbeck
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.Meister Eckhart
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.Pam Brown
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
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 eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
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
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.Kahlil Gibron
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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 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
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.George Bernard Shaw
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
