Silence Quotes

Thomas carlyle - under all speech that is good for anything there...
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
A. a. attanasio - silence is a text easy to misread....
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
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Confucius
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
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
Kahlil gibron - i have learned silence from the talkative,...
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
Helen Kelle
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
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson
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
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
Your very silence shows you agree.
Euripides
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.
Pam Brown
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores
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
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.
Leon Samson
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
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
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.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Anon.
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.
Steven Wright
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
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
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 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
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