Silence Quotes

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Silence is so freaking loud

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Your very silence shows you agree.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

When I'm away from a red carpet, I'm a big introvert, I'm very quiet, and I like to sit in silence at home with my cat, Nino, who is my whole world, or most of it.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

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

Never let anyone silence your voice.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Silence is a source of great strenght.

Art destroys silence.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.