Listen to silence. It has so much to say. Rumi
The quieter you become the more you are able to hear. Rumi
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. Erich Segal
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
Saying nothing sometimes says the most. Emily Dickinson
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Francis Bacon
Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. Maxime Lagacé
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something. Federico Fellini
In the silence behind what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long. Andreas Fransson
Speech is silver, silence is golden. Thomas Carlyle
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. Euripides
The Best Silence Quotes
Silence is a source of great strength. Lao Tzu
Inner silence is the mother of all talents. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus
The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside. Naval Ravikant
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. Albert Einstein
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Emily Bronte
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. Chaim Potok
Time and silence are the most luxurious things today. Tom Ford
Silence is true wisdom’s best reply. Euripides
The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes. Rick Rubin
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content. Helen Keller
Silence is so freaking loud. Sarah Dessen
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. George Steiner
The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion. Kapil Gupta
Silence is sometimes the best answer. Dalai Lama
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Cato The Elder
Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. Mandy Hale
The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte
Silence speaks when words can’t. Unknown
The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. Clarice Lispector
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. Rumi
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. W. S. Merwin
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. William Faulkner
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. Epictetus
Part 2. Silence Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Silence Quotes (da Vinci, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, etc.)
Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr
Silence is the wit of fools. Anatole France
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci
Without great solitude no serious work is possible. Pablo Picasso
Speak only if it improves upon the silence. Mahatma Gandhi
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. Publilius Syrus
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain
Silence is more eloquent than words. Thomas Carlyle
The truth hurts, but silence kills. Mark Twain
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. Martin Luther King Jr
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer. Muhammad Ali
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Charles de Gaulle
If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence. Mother Teresa
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. Victor Hugo
Silence is argument carried out by other means. Ernesto Che Guevara
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. Bob Dylan
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. William Shakespeare
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. Henry David Thoreau
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. Thomas Carlyle
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. Plutarch
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. Pythagoras
We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. Napoleon Bonaparte
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Silence, healing. Heraclitus
Sometimes it’s better to be silent and smile. Unknown
Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm. Aeschylus
Silence is safer than speech. Epictetus
Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras
I was quiet, but I was not blind. Jane Austen
What’s quiet is more powerful than you think. Maxime Lagacé
Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti
Solitude is a catalyst for innovation. Susan Cain (See her excellent book Quiet or her blog quietrev.com)
You misinterpret everything, even the silence. Franz Kafka
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. Iain Duncan Smith
The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is. Annie Dillard
The silence is so deep it hurts our ears. Haruki Murakami
Real action is in silent moments. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. Alan Watts
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. Thomas Carlyle
The quiet mind is richer than a crown. Robert Greene
Noise: a stench in the ear. Ambrose Bierce
Silence says a lot more than you think. Unknown
Still waters run deep. Unknown
Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud. Unknown
Getting no message is also a message. Unknown
You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don’t say. Unknown
Silence isn’t empty. It’s full of ansers. Unknown
Silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli
To hear, one must be silent. Ursula K. Le Guin
Sound is our mind, silence is our being. Osho
You cannot be angry when alone. Osho
Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us. Thomas Raymond Kelly
One need not always be saying something in this noisy world. Sarah Orne Jewett
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. Karen Marie Moning
Silence is the virtue of fools. Francis Bacon
A silent man is easily reputed wise. Frederick William Robertson
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. George Henry Lewes
Speech is the small change of silence. George Meredith
Never be bullied into silence. Harvey Fierstein
Hope will never be silent. Harvey Milk
Sad Silence Quotes
Great souls suffer in silence. Friedrich Schiller
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. David Markson
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Being quiet is fine, most people don’t listen anyways. Unknown
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it’s important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. Gary Shteyngart
Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound. Jodi Picoult
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. Arthur Schopenhauer
Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. Daphne du Maurier
The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. P.C. Wren
I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man. Akilnathan Logeswaran
Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.” Toni Morrison
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation…tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. Jean Arp
I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression. Sharon E. Rainey
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Inspirational Silence Quotes (Powerful, Beautiful, Emotional)
By silence, I hear other men’s imperfections and conceal my own. Citium Zeno
I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Soren Kierkegaard
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. Ezra Taft Benson
The hardest and most important battle you’ll deliver is when you’ll be alone. Will you follow the crowds or will you follow that little voice inside yourself? Maxime Lagacé
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. Virginia Woolf
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. Annie Besant
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams
I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent. Sonia Rumzi
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw
Withdraw into yourself, perceive there a silence as old as being, even older. Emil Cioran
Within each of us, there is silence. A silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are. Gunilla Norris
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. Eugenio Montale
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; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. Henry David Thoreau
It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. Robert W. Service
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully. Norton Juster
I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. John Steinbeck
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. Audre Lorde
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for – you. Shannon L. Alder
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. Henry Miller
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Henri Frederic Amiel
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. Wisława Szymborska
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. Leonora Carrington
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. Georg Trakl
You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. Sathya Sai Baba
Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. Sivananda
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
Funny Silence Quotes (Some Will Surprise You)
Talk doesn’t cook rice. Chinese proverb
A wise man once said nothing. Unknown
Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to. Thomas Hardy
There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. Susan Cain
I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea. Albert Camus
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. Criss Jami
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. Bill Murray
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. Mark Twain
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it. Sam Levenson
Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides
No man should live where he can hear his neighbor’s dog bark. Nathaniel Macon
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. Maurice Switzer (Not from Mark Twain, see https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/)
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them. Dejan Stojanovic
Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot
I get tired of talking when I want to be silent. Henry Rollins
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. Woody Allen
Deep Silence Quotes (Some Will Make You Think Hard)
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. Carl Jung
Luxury, today, is solitude and silence. Paul-Henri Spaak
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus
I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity. Nadezhda Mandelstam
Silence is interesting. It can show confusion, indifference and sadness. But it can also show determination, confidence and caring. Maxime Lagacé
Busyness functions like an addiction. When you stop, you have to face your thoughts, which terrifies most of us. Thibaut
In a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. Sogyal Rinpoche
Only silence perfects silence. A. R. Ammons
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. Jack Kerouac
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. Anthony de Mello
In most areas of life, the less you say, the more profound and mysterious you appear. Robert Greene
When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. Luqman
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. Albert Camus
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. Annie Besant
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God. Soren Kierkegaard
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. Kahlil Gibran
There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. Thomas Merton
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Lawrence Durrell
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. Haruki Murakami
The space, the gaps, the pauses, the silence – those things that allow us to regenerate and recharge – had all but disappeared in my own life and in the lives of so many I knew. Arianna Huffington
We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are. Jefferson Bethke
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone. Mark Lawrence
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. George Eliot
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. Virginia Woolf
There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. Arundhati Roy
I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. C.S. Lewis
Silence is the eternal duty of man. Thomas Carlyle
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. Sylvia Plath
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Thomas Carlyle
Human beings can’t bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves. Pascal Mercier
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. Khalil Gibran
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. Charles Buxton
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Edmund Burke
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Emile M. Cioran
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin
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Wise Silence Quotes (Words of Wisdom)
Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind. Buddha
Lying is done with words and also with silence. Adrienne Rich
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the silence. Anthony de Mello
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. German proverb
If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple. Pythagoras
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham Lincoln
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs
Silence gives us space to process our experiences and soak in our surroundings. Cati Vanden Breul
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. Baruch Spinoza
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Michel de Montaigne
I have found that one cannot win the war of words. So I don’t engage in one to begin with. I have renounced the need to be seen as right, intelligent or wise. I have seen the futility of verbal battles. Either one seeks to understand or score points. The latter isn’t worth it. The Ancient Sage
Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. Unknown
It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Nicholas Sparks
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk. Virginia Woolf
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. Augustus Hare
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide. Honoré de Balzac
The wiser you become, the more comfortable you are with silence. Maxime Lagacé
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. Charles Caleb Colton
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard, nor welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. Audre Lorde
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Alison McGhee
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple. Julius Lester
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm. Thomas Merton
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
We’ve known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it’s only recently that we’ve forgotten it. Susan Cain
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation. Craig Bruce
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Francis Beaumont
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy. David Steinberg
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent. Eckhart Tolle
Part 3. Conclusion
Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea. Sri Chinmoy
