Silence Quotes

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Jean-Yves Leloup

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

Jeanette Winterson

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

Paulo Coelho

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

Albert Einstein

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

T.F. Hodge

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.

Samuel Johnson

Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.

Steve Maraboli

Not to ask is not be denied.

John Dryden

All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.

Paulo Coelho

What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because force us or because we're afraid they might force us?

Orson Scott Card

In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.

Orson Scott Card

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Jonathan Katz

Decency is Indecency's Conspiracy of Silence.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Jodi Picoult

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Adelaide Crapsey

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Samuel Beckett

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

Kahlil Gibran