Silence Quotes

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.

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

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

Helen Kelle

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

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

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.

Steven Wright

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.

Pam Brown

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Marcel Marceau

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

Samuel Johnson

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.

Ian Gabirol

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

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

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

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

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm

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

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

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

C. S. Robinson

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

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

Beckett

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

John Viscount Morley

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle