Silence Quotes

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Benjamin Franklin

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

C. S. Robinson

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Erich Fromm

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Saadi

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

Beckett

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

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

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.

Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Menande

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

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 is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

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

Alice Walke

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04

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

Ian Gabirol

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

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

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

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

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox