Silence Quotes · Page 116

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

— Plutarch

“A good silence is better than a million words from the mouth of a fool.”

— Paul Bamikole PB

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

— Dominique Bouhours

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

— Sylvia Plath

“You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts.”

— Lorraine Heath

If I could explain to you how much you hurt me I would, but my silence should be enough.

— Anonymous

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

— Pam Brown

The room's hush hush and now's our moment. Take it in, feel it all and hold it Eyes on you, eyes on…

— Anonymous

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with…

— Anonymous

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it…

— Alice Hoffman

“And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest music leaving tears on the glass, which is what music does to me…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a…

— Margaret Cho

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he…

— Elizabeth Kostova

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in…

— Paul Weyrich

Silence is Holy. It draws people closer together. Because those who are only comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Trust the path when it is dim. Trust the silence when it is heavy. Trust the One who placed the moon above…

— Dark Night Beacon

The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and…

— Anonymous

Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about…

— Vera Nazarian

I took some time... to kind of check in with myself, sit in silence, and do all the things that we're supposed…

— Jerrika Hinton

“The nurses’ station was unmanned, which was odd. Taylor felt her chest tighten. Something was wrong. Stealing glances, she saw the hallways…

— J.T. Ellison

When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed.…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear…

— Theodore Roosevelt

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

— Jeanette Winterson

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

— Thomas Keating

“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.”

— Ruta Sepetys

A woman's silence says it all. Her silence & lack of expression means that she's reached her breaking point!

— Anonymous

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence

— Proverb

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

— Orhan Pamuk

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

— Irvine Welsh

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

— Elizabeth I

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

— Edmund Burke

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

— Sigurd F. Olson

“Quiet is really just a lot of small noises that most people don’t notice.”

— Robert Dunbar

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

— Agnes de Mille

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

— William Penn

“You stood by their side while they stabbed you in silence.”

— Garima Soni

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.

— Steve Tibbetts

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

— Mike Nichols