Silence Quotes

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light

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

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

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.

Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

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

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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

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

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

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 sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

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

With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.

Horace

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

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

Plutarch

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

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

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walke

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 is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Aldous Huxley

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Beckett

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

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie