Silence Quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
Erich Fromm
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
William shakespeare,
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson
George orwell - anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy...
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Steven Wright
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Author Unknown
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal
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
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
Adrienne rich - lying is done with words and also with silence....
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Confucius
Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
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.
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
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
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
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
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
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...
Jacqui We
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel Marceau
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
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
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Attanasio
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
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