Silence Quotes

Silent guns have virtue.

— Robert Genn

“Work hard in silence.”

— Alin Sav

“Silence is a powerful tool.”

— Suzanne Hayes

Your silence gives consent.

— Plato

Silence is wisdom

— Anonymous

Silence can never be quoted.

— Anonymous

Noise: a stench in the ear.

— Ambrose Bierce

I love silence.

— Brenda Blethyn

Sometimes silence is the best way to talk.

— Ophelia Callens

Silence speaks volumes & I ain't got shit to say.

— Anonymous

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

— Morrie Brickman

“How do I learn to speak when silence is all I know?”

— Susie Clevenger

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

— Denis Waitley

The more quite you become, the more you are able to hear.

— Anonymous

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

— Ignatius of Loyola

Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.

— Mother Teresa

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

— Shane Claiborne

“I think I speak for all the mutes when I say, “Silence is equality.” I’m sure the deaf would agree too.”

— Jarod Kintz

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

— Ramana Maharshi

I was in search for answers so I turned to words..until I realised everything was there already in silence

— Meeeeee

“You spend way too much time confusing silence with strength.”

— Leah Stewart

“If they have hurt you with their words, hurt them back with your silence.”

— Garima Soni - words world

“Staying silent has ended more relationships than speaking ever has.”

— Garima Soni

“Brilliant minds, though brimming with feeling, often remain silent — not from coldness, but out of sheer elegance.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

“I'm Violet," I growl. "I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it." Total silence. Then…

— Nicole Christie

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless;…

— Jean Klein

“I saw their mouths going up and down without a sound, as if they were sitting on the deck of a departing…

— Sylvia Plath

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of…

— Edward Young

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

— Pierre Bourdieu

In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led…

— Richard Rohr

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

— Anonymous

“It’s lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world’s most annoying office-mate to shut…

— Charles Stross

[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we…

— Audre Lorde

“1. The awkward pause. Instead of being controlled by the threat of an awkward silence, own it. Use it as a tool.…

— Greg McKeown

Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world…

— Max Picard

“It is not many things that modern psychology agress upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“As emotions may take apart bit by bit the rational blueprints in our imagination, dreams may expose what is veiled in the…

— Erik Pevernagie

These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity.…

— William O. Douglas

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works…

— Ben Okri

“I have a great sense of Stuart and silence on these nights. The village, wrapped in sleep; owls glide between the yew…

— Alexander Masters