Silence Quotes

• Euripides was wont to say, 'Silence is an answer to a wise man.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Wise
  • Silence

• Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Power
  • Silence

• Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Air
  • Silence

• When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Kindness

• Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

  

  David Malouf
  • Silence
  • Communication
  • Divides

• What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

  

  James P. Carse
  • God
  • Experience
  • Silence

• I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Why
  • Age
  • Record

• They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Death
  • Genius
  • Acceptance

• You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Silence
  • Answer
  • Silence Is

• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Death
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Music
  • Silence

• Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Device

• Silence is the best answer to a fool.

  

  Nnedi Okorafor
  • Silence
  • Fool
  • Answer

• For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

  

  Martin Buber
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Silence

• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • World
  • Past
  • Sympathy

• Music is the framework around the silence.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Silence
  • Framework

• You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Beautiful
  • Single
  • Monster

• The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Color
  • Expression
  • Example

• Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Book
  • Prayer
  • Silence

• As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

  

  Brian Williams
  • Taken
  • Silence

• The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Music
  • Notes
  • Between

• The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Men
  • Thanks
  • Framed

• There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • Grace
  • Confusion

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