Silence Quotes

• Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Believe
  • Won
  • Wonders

• Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Fame
  • Praise
  • Breath

• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sleep
  • Listening
  • Dog

• Sun, silence, and happiness.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Happiness
  • Sun
  • Silence

• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Think
  • Silence
  • Good Answer

• We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Silence
  • Truths
  • Gays

• I have an appetite for silence.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Silence
  • Appetite

• And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Silence
  • Visible
  • Kinds

• Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • Thinking
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• Before you speak, ask yourself this question: will your words improve the silence?

  

  Andrew B. Newberg
  • Words
  • Silence
  • Speak

• In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Energy
  • Unity

• Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.

  

  William Braithwaite
  • Summer
  • Shadow
  • Stealing

• There is a premium on conformity, and on silence. Enthusiasm is frowned upon, since it is likely to be noisy. The Admiral had caught a few kids who came to school before class, eager to practice on the typewriters. He issued a manifesto forbidding any students in the building before 8:20 or after 3:00—outside of school hours, students are "unauthorized." They are not allowed to remain in a classroom unsupervised by a teacher. They are not allowed to linger in the corridors. They are not allowed to speak without raising a hand. They are not allowed to feel too strongly or to laugh too loudly. Yesterday, for example, we were discussing "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars/ But in ourselves that we are underlings." I had been trying to relate Julius Caesar to their own experiences. Is this true? I asked. Are we really masters of our fate? Is there such a thing as luck? A small boy in the first row, waving his hand frantically: "Oh, call on me, please, please call on me!" was propelled by the momentum of his exuberant arm smack out of his seat and fell on the floor. Wild laughter. Enter McHabe. That afternoon, in my letter-box, it had come to his attention that my "control of the class lacked control.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Teacher
  • Students
  • Enthusiasm

• There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Time
  • Music
  • Silence

• My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Desire
  • Fool

• It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • School
  • House
  • Duties

• All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Pride

• The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

  

  Ernest Hello
  • Action
  • Silence

• There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Silence
  • Concepts

• I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.

  

  Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Price

• In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

  

  Ben Lee
  • Silence
  • Hear

• That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Men
  • Silence
  • Listen

• And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Wife

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