Silence Quotes

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

A kindOf excellent dumb discourse.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

Never miss a chance to shut up

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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me.