“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
— Will Rogers“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
— Nadezhda Mandelstam“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
— Mary Ann Shaffer“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”
— Sanober Khan“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”
— Rumi“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“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”
— Norman Maclean“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.”
— Amit Ray“Only in the silence of our mind are we One.”
— Vivian Amis“Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“When it is not necessary to say anything, then it is necessary to say nothing.”
— Unknown“If what you want to say is neither true, nor good or kind, nor useful or necessary, please don't say anything at all”
— Socrates“Nature's quiet power is a reminder that true strength is often silent.”
— Aloo Denish Obiero“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.”
— Sanober Khan“We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech”
— William Carlos Williams“Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.--from Crossing the Water, written 1962”
— Sylvia PlathThe quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
— RumiIn silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
— RumiIn the end, you will see that I loved you more than I could say.
— Pablo NerudaOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
— Martin Luther King Jr.You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
— Martin LutherThere are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
— E.A. BucchianeriThere are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
— E.A. BucchianeriThe man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
— Wole SoyinkaA life lived in silence is a life of denial.
— J.M. CoetzeeTrue friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
— David TysonThe greatest tragedy is not the brutality of the evil people, but rather the silence of the good people.
— A.S. ByattIt’s the silence between the notes that makes the music.
— Anthony LiccioneWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel AdamsThe silence of a Carthusian is not emptiness; it is a space filled with God’s love and grace.
— A. CarthusianTo live in silence is to discover the voice of God that speaks in the depths of our hearts.
— A. CarthusianIn the silence of our hearts, God reveals His mysteries, and we are transformed.
— A. CarthusianIn the silence of the soul, one can find the greatest truths.
— Abd-Ru-ShinThe silence of the city is a canvas upon which we paint our dreams.
— Adam ZagajewskiIn the silence of the night, our thoughts become our loudest companions.
— Adrian C. LouisIn the silence of the night, our thoughts become our loudest companions.
— Adrian C. LouisIt is in the silence that we can hear the loudest truths.
— Adrienne RichLying is done with words, and also with silence.
— Adrienne RichThe language of the gods is silence.
— AeschylusIn the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
— AeschylusSometimes silence is the best response.
— Ahmad ArdalanIn keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
— Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynIn keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
— Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynWisdom is the quiet voice that guides us when noise surrounds us.
— Alex RogersWisdom is the quiet voice that guides us when noise surrounds us.
— Alex RogersWhen truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
— Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynIn the silence, we often find the loudest answers.
— Alexandra EngellmannIn the face of oppression, silence is complicity.
— Ali Al-AhmedLove is a rebellion against the silence of the world.
— Amal El-MohtarA love that can exist in silence is the greatest love of all.
— A. J. Cronin