True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
Jean Stafford

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold Stokowski

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

There are times when silence has the loudest voice

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.
Dino De Laurentiis

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Margaret Sanger

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

And in the afternoon they entered a land – but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
George Washington Cable

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
William R. Benet

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
Jonathan Franzen

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
John Lahr

Silence is the most powerful scream.

The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence.
Walter Bauer

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.
Richard Steele

Silence is a source of great strength.

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber

Silence will save me from being wrong, but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Silence is the most powerful scream.

Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W.S. Merwin

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
Sylvia Plath

Silence is a source of great strength.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for – sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm…. One of the greatest sounds of them all – and to me it is a sound – is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz

See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Elbert Hubbard

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Silence is a fence around wisdom.
German Proverb

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Silence is medication for sorrow.
Arab Proverb

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.
Latin Proverb

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Silence was never written down.
Italian Proverb

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Silence is exhilarating at first – as noise is – but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
Edward Hoagland

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Nature and silence go better together.
Astrid Alauda

With silence favor me.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
Peter Minard

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A.A. Attanasio

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Nothing is more useful than silence.
Menander of Athens

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily.
Gwendolyn Bennett

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

What shall I say to you? What can I say
Better than silence is?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
William Alexander

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Honk if you hate noise pollution.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
D.M. Thomas

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
Proverb

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Silence is the secret to sanity.
Astrid Alauda

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Leroy Brownlow

Silence is the virtue of fools.

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The best answer to anger is silence.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Silence is also speech.
Proverb

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson

Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
Sandra Day O’Connor