Silence Quotes - page 2

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. (Edith Sitwell)
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. View quote
Rumi
Silence is argument carried out by other means. View quote
Che Guevara
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Speech is the small change of silence. View quote
George Meredith
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. (Samuel Johnson)
Silence more musical than any song. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Silence is the surest resolve for him who distrusts himself. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? View quote
Federico Fellini
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. View quote
Saskya Pandita
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. View quote
William O. Douglas
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. (Thomas Carlyle)
Silence is more eloquent than words. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. View quote
Marcel Marceau
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