Silence Quotes
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
Silence is a text easy to misread.A. A. Attanasio
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.Benjamin Franklin
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
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 at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Plutarch
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
With silence favor me. Favete Linguis.Horace
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
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
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?Steven Wright
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 Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
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
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.Albert Camus
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Nothing is more useful than silence.Menande
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.Meister Eckhart
With silence favor me.Horace
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
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.Seneca
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
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
Your very silence shows you agree.Euripides
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
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
