Silence Quotes
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.
I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.
The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.
The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.
Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.
He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it.
Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.
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.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.
Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.
Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
