Silence Quotes

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Sometimes words are not enough.

Try to record your own silence. Listen to it when you are alone, but be careful! You could go insane because of your own noise.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

In the midst of crowds, therefore, on a journey, and even at festive meetings, let thought secure for herself privacy.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

There was silence in the hall, now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls.

It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.

Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Don’t you hate that? Uncomfortable silence. Why do we feel it’s necessary to talk about bull in order to feel comfortable? That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special. When you can just shut the hell up for a minute and comfortably share a silence.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Live within the sane, sweet sun. Leave the shadow-world alone. There is a crown for everyone; For everyone there is a throne. That crown is silence, sealed and sure. That throne is knowledge, perfect pure.

There is a time in law when men should speak or when they will be bound by their silence.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Sometimes silence seems to connect us in a way that words never could.

You have a grand gift of silence, Watson, said he. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.