Silence Quotes

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Steven Wright
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Mother theresa - we need to find god, and he cannot be found in...
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.
Leon Samson
Albert camus - the absurd is born of the confrontation between...
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.
Unknown
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
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
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 best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Author Unknown
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
William Rose Benet
Prophet mohammed, bukhari - it is better to sit alone than in company with...
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
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
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
Helen Kelle
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
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
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
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
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
With silence favor me.
Horace
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. Robinson
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
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
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn