SILENCE QUOTES V

quotations about silence

Silence has many beauties.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, The Sons of Aleus

Tags: Sophocles


There are unfortunates who never realize the beauty of silence, the restless ones. Wherever they are they destroy it. They chronically feel an incessant desire to fill up all the crevices of time with sound. They contribute to the vast sum of disease in the world. They are themselves diseased. They lack one of the most precious blessings of health, balance of qualities that give poise, expressing itself in love of peace, in silence.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays


There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

O. A. BATTISTA

attributed, Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes


There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

STANISLAW JERZY LEC

Unkempt Thoughts


About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

Tags: Ludwig Wittgenstein


I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

EDGAR LEE MASTERS

Silence


If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

Tags: Austin O'Malley


Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

LAWRENCE DURRELL

Justine


I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

The Man from Vermont

Tags: Calvin Coolidge


There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale


Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

Tags: William S. Burroughs


Your silence will not protect you.

AUDRE LORDE

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches


You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.

U. S. POLICE OFFICERS

Miranda Warning


There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.

HORACE

Carmina

Tags: Horace


A silence so sweet
it repels all bees
with an inhuman excess
and ripples a tragic mask
in a goathead's bleached grin,
snow-fired, cow-fat, reflecting nothing

EDWARD BUTSCHER

Poems about Silence


Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact--from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it.

GEORGE ELIOT

Theophrastus Such

Tags: George Eliot


To be silent oft is to learn.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well

Tags: William Shakespeare


Silence must be heard.

ENIGMA

"Silence Must Be Heard"


The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Herons of Elmwood", Keramos and Other Poems

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow