Quotes on silence
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
Barzan, George
Silence was never written down.
Proverb, Italian
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
Minard, Peter
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Cioran, Emile M.
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
Plath, Sylvia
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Penn, William
Silence is medication for sorrow.
Proverb, Arab
Nature and silence go better together.
Alauda, Astrid
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
Silence is a source of great strength.
Tzu, Lao
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.
Steele, Richard
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
Alexander, William
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Unknown, Author
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Brownlow, Leroy
Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal.
Unknown, Author
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Lincoln, Abraham
Silence is the secret to sanity.
Alauda, Astrid
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Arp, Jean