Silence Quotes

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Your very silence shows you agree.

I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

I learnt silence from the talkative

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

Silence is sometimes the best answer

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

When they remain silent, they cry out.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

No more words. Hear only the voice within.

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

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.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.