Silence Quotes

John lah - accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the...
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
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Steven Wright
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles de gaulle - silence is the ultimate weapon of power....
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
Sir francis bacon - silence is the virtue of fools....
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
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
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
With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.
Horace
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The price of seeing is silence.
Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Attanasio
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
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 at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.
Martha Grimes, from Hotel Paradise, a novel
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.
Unknown
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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
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
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...
Jacqui We
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
Helen Kelle
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca
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
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
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
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
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