Sides Quote by W. H. Auden

The rest, is silence.

— William Shakespeare

Silence alone is worthy to be heard. Silence is of various depth and fertility like soil.

— Anonymous

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral…

— Philip Larkin

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

— Stephen Hough

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays…

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

“A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.”

— Patrick McGrath

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

— Alice Fulton

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

— Alice Duer Miller

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

— George Eliot

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

— Mother Teresa

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

— John Keats

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

— Dejan Stojanovic