#Silence Quotes

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

“What is thy sentence then but speechless death.”

“Give it an understanding, but no tongue.”

“To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.”

“That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)”

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

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

“I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.”

“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”

“A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.”

“A kindOf excellent dumb discourse.”

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”

“A man of no conversation should smoke.”

“The rest, is silence.”

“Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”

“Silence is only commendableIn a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.”

“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”

“Silenceis an ocean. Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don't walkinto the language-river. Listen to the ocean,and bring your talky business to an end.Traditional words are just babblingin that presence, and babbling is a substitutefor sight.”

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

“Close the language-door,and open the love-window”

“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.”

“Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.”

“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

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

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

“The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.”

“Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.”

“Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.”

“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

“Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.”

“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”

“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness”

“No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.”

“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

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

“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.”

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

“Silence is the perfect herald of joy.”

“The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?”

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

“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.”

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

“Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”