Dread Quote by Sophocles

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

— Frances Ridley Havergal

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible…

— Herman Melville

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

— Paul Brunton

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the…

— Jack Kerouac

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

— Thomas Moore

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

— Franz Wright