Silence Quotes
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.Martin Fraquhar Tuppe
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
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 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
With silence favor me.Horace
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
The rest is silence.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.Horace
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.Meister Eckhart
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?Steven Wright
Silence is a text easy to misread.A. A. Attanasio
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Plutarch
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
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
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
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.Albert Camus
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.
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
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
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
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 silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William Shakespeare
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
