Silence Quotes

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

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

With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.

Horace

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

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

Helen Kelle

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Alfred Jarry

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

Albert Camus

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

Confucius

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

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

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

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

Plutarch

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Seneca

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

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.

Leon Samson

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 attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran

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

Saadi

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

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

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

Charles Simic

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

Kahlil Gibran

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.

Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

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

C. S. Robinson

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