Silence Is Quotes

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
- Amit Abraham

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.
- Nema Al Araby

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
- Mitch Albom

He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.'

- Mitch Albom

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
- Mitch Albom

A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali

In some causes silence is dangerous.
- Saint Ambrose

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero

Silence is more eloquent than words.
- 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.
- Thomas Carlyle

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- 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 not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
- Melina Marchetta

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Francis Bacon

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it's best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they're saying. A lot of times people think they have to say something all insightful or wise or something to try and make the person feel better. But really, sometimes silence is best.
- Lauren Barnholdt

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
- Frank Beddor

Imagine you are the Earth and he is the Sun, that silence is tangible, and the stars are the souls of your previous lives.
- Jessica Bell

A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.
- Haruki Murakami

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Josh Billings

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.
- William Shakespeare

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
- William Shakespeare

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
- Elayne Boosler

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
- Samuel Johnson

You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.
- Alan Bradley

...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.
- Alan Bradley

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
- Marshall Mcluhan

Silence is sometimes the best answer
- Dalai Lama

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
- Nicholas Sparks

The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit with out speaking. This is the great paradox.
- Nicholas Sparks

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
- Nicholas Sparks

Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
- Nicholas Sparks

It is a waste, for silence is pure.
Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are
comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great
paradox.
- Nicholas Sparks

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
- Craig Bruce

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.
- Paul Brunton

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
- George Bernard Shaw

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
- William S Burroughs

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
- Charles Buxton

I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-"
"I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.
- Loretta Chase

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The silence isn't so bad
Till I look at my hands and feel sad
Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly
- Owl City

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
- Colette

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary and awful to hear through the night silence. Issac felt strangely wakeful. He resolved, as he lay down in bed, to keep the candle alight until he began to grow sleepy; for there was something unendurably depressing in the bare idea of lying awake in the darkness, listening to the dismal, ceaseless moan of the wind in the wood. ("The Dream Woman")
- Wilkie Collins

Silence is safe.
- Wilkie Collins

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
- Confucius

silence is the most intolerable of answers.
- Mason Cooley

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau

It's just so quiet out here. Not like the quiet in the house. This is different. This is a quiet you cant fight, you can't change. This silence is bigger than you and me, we dont cause it. It's like Gods refusal to speak.
- Jonathan Culver

See for me, it's immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn't sure which.
- Sarah Dessen

Really? Screaming?"
He shrugged. "It wasn't that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse."
"Worse than screaming?" I said.
"Much," he said, nodding. "I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is... it could be anything. It's just "
"So freaking loud," I finished for him.
He pointed at me. "Exactly.
- Sarah Dessen

Silence is so freaking loud
- Sarah Dessen

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
- Annie Dillard

The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.
- Annie Dillard

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
- Annie Dillard

The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings.
- Annie Dillard

Silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
- William Drummond

The habit of silence is lead on the tongue.
- Ursula K Le Guin

A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?
- Marguerite Duras

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
- Martin Luther King Jr

The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today...
...some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.
- Martin Luther King Jr

Silence is safer than speech.
- Epictetus

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
- Euripides

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- Victor Hugo

Silence is the wit of fools.
- Anatole France

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles De Gaulle

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- Thomas Hardy

Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens.
In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.
- Swami Dhyan Giten

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
- Amy Goodman

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Che Guevara

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.
- Margaret Haddix

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
- Budd Schulberg

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
- Mark Helprin

Silence is best.
- John Hewson

Everything has two endings-
a horse, a piece of string, a phone call.
Before a life, air.
And after.
As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.
- Jane Hirshfield

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
- Alice Hoffman

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir
- Khaled Hosseini

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.
- Khaled Hosseini

Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
- Khaled Hosseini

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
- T D Jakes

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
- Alfred Jarry

Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
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- Iris Johansen

Silence is refreshment for the soul.
- Wynonna Judd

If silence is the admission of guilt, then she must be really guilty, because last night I asked her a question and instead of answering, she went to sleep for eight hours.
- Jarod Kintz

You may not have said anything, but you're rightsilence is the best response.
- Jarod Kintz

I think I speak for all the mutes when I say, "Silence is equality." I'm sure the deaf would agree too.
- Jarod Kintz

What's said in silence is best viewed in darkness. I learned that while reading a bowl of Alphabet Soup.
- Jarod Kintz

Silence is golden, and gold is up these days, so silence is a solid investment.
- Jarod Kintz

The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa

The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa

and silence is the golden mountain
- Jack Kerouac

I felt like telling Japhy everything I thought but I knew it didn't matter and moreover he knew it anyway and silence is the golden mountain.
- Jack Kerouac

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.
- Jack Kerouac

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
- E L Konigsburg

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already
- C S Lewis

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
- Arthur Machen

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
- Michelle Malkin

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
- Marcel Marceau

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
- Marlee Matlin

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
- Yukio Mishima

Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.
- Karen Marie Moning

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
- Bob Monkhouse

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
- Sandra Day Oconnor

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
- Arvo Part

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because theres no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but were still living
the book.
- Daniel Pennac

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
- Britney Spears

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
- Pindar

Silence is better than unmeaning words.
- Pythagoras

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.
- Amit Ray

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.
- Rachel Naomi Remen

My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
- Henry Rollins

Silence is more musical than any song.
- Christina G Rossetti

Silence is so accurate.
- Mark Rothko

silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
- Rumi

Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.
- Diane Setterfield

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

Silence is the only language god speaks.
- Charles Simic

Silence is an ornament for women.
- Sophocles

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Their silence is praise enough.
- Terence

Silence is the unbearable repartee.
- Alexander Theroux

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko