Silence Quotes

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Plutarch
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

C. S. Lewis
- God
- Silence
- Meditation

I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.

Jim Gaffigan
- Rooms
- Hotel
- Domes
That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

Earl Nightingale
- Up
- Interesting
- Silence
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

Ursula K. Le Guin
- Time
- Great
- Long
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

Norton Juster
- Time
- Problem
- Sound
At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be shared because we own nothing. There is a word inside us stronger than all others - and more personal. A word of solitude and certainty, so buried in its night that it is barely audible to itself. A word of refusal, but also of absolute commitment, forging its bonds of silence in the emfathomable silence of the bond. This word cannot be shared. Only sacrificed.

Edmond Jabes
- Death
- Earth
- Word
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

O. Henry
- Work
- Done
- Sweet