Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin. — Sandra Bullock
If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head. — Sandra Bullock
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. — Carol Burnett
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. — William S. Burroughs
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. — William S. Burroughs
It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from… — Gary Busey
It is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try… — John Cage
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we… — Albert Camus
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. — Orson Scott Card
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. — Vittorio Alfieri
Silence is more eloquent than words. — Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. — Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. — Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. — Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. — Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,… — Thomas Carlyle
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to… — Benjamin Carson
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. — Muhammad Ali
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always… — Nick Cave
A yawn is a silent shout. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Winston Churchill
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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