220 Greatest Quotes About Silence

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

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

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. Henry David Thoreau

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. Margaret Atwood

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. James Joyce

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. Haruki Murakami

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. Samuel Beckett

Silence is the best response to a fool. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

From politics it was an easy step to silence. Jane Austen

People who don't think shouldn't talk. Lewis Carroll

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do. Nas

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words. Epictetus

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe

Your silence will not protect you. Audre Lorde

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. Orhan Pamuk

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences. Samuel Beckett

Speech is silver, silence is golden. Thomas Carlyle

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. Louise Bourgeois

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. Woody Allen

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. Virginia Woolf

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear. Haruki Murakami

Nothing is more useful than silence. Menander

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. Rabindranath Tagore

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Henry David Thoreau

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence. Yasmin Mogahed

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Christopher Hitchens

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot

Silence is argument carried out by other means. Che Guevara

Silence is the wit of fools. Anatole France

When you can bear your own silence, you are free. Mooji

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people. Napoleon Bonaparte

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever. Johnny Depp

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent. Henry Rollins

Let us have the luxury of silence. Jane Austen

Silence is a source of Great Strength. Lao Tzu

I have an appetite for silence. Emily Dickinson

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie. Victor Hugo

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. James Joyce

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. Elie Wiesel

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. Epictetus

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. Jean-Paul Sartre

My love, I fear the silence of your hands. Mahmoud Darwish

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple. Pythagoras

Music is the silence between the notes. Claude Debussy

Silence is the essential condition of happiness. Heinrich Heine