Silence Quotes

Silence Is Bliss

— LostInTears

Hush Hush, Voices Carry.

— Anonymous

Friendship needs no words.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Your voice is too loud

— MGMT

Silence, nothing is better.

— Diane von Furstenberg

Silence in black and white

— Hawthorne Heights

“Silence is never empty.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

God gives quietness at last.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

— William Shakespeare

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

— Arthur Machen

Silence sometimes is more musical than any song.

— Laylablack

Harsh words hurt my feelings, but silence breaks my heart

— Unknow

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

— Anonymous

There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence

— Proverb

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

— Antoine Rivarol

“The silence sounded like a fire alarm in my ears.”

— Jarod Kintz

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

— Louise Penny

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

— Adelaide Crapsey

“Listening and silence are not necessarily the same thing, but silence is a really good start.”

— Adam S. McHugh

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

— Henry David Thoreau

A moment of silence to everyone whose birthday is on the 29th of February, 2014..

— Jeromy Shingongo

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

In The Time Of Crisis, i was Not Hurt By The Harsh words of My Enemies, But I was Hurt By The…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

— Emily Dickinson

¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness…

— Aroha Janet

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God…

— Neal Shusterman

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then…

— Diane Setterfield

I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,…

— Thomas Merton

“When I go to the bar, I never drink much. And to do that I avoid conversations, as silence reduces saliva and…

— Jarod Kintz

“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery,…

— David Amerland

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

— Deepak Chopra

“The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes…

— Thomas Pynchon

Dont you just hate that? uncomfortable silences. why do we feel it's necessary to talk about bull in order to be comfortable?…

— Anonymous

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Lust of life digs out hidden qualities and subdued yearnings from the silence of our inner self. If we give way to…

— Erik Pevernagie

“In the seventh century, Isaac the Syrian wrote about 'stillness,' which in his writings has been summarized as 'a deliberate denial of…

— Kenneth Bailey

Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he…

— Cindy Gerard

“I would eat my soup in silence, but it’s alphabet soup. They’re all capital letters and they are shouting at me. I’m…

— Jarod Kintz

“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in…

— László Krasznahorkai

“What we all have discovered together, only rarely in classrooms, is that the passage of years guarantees very little in the way…

— Jane Howard