Top 100+ Great Silence Quotes

Great Silence Quotes

 Silence is a true friend who never betrays. – Confucius

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

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. – Leonardo da Vinci

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

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

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. – Epictetus

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

Silence Quotes

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. – Andrea Bocelli

A silent mouth is melodious.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. – Amir

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Silence the best way to let someone know they did wrong.

Silence is not consent. It is a mute protest of one who cannot put his feelings into words.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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

Some people cannot stand silence for it is when in this state of sound can they hear their own soul cry in torment.

Silence is the best way to react while angry.

Best Silence Quotes

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

Silence is a habit that is hard earned but good for the soul.

Patience and silence are two powerful energies. patience makes you mentally strong, silence makes you emotionally strong!

Silence is an inward scream.

The best answer to anger is silence.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. – Rumi

A comfortable silence between two people often means a strong sense of trust.

Listen to the sound of silence Inspirational Stories to awaken.

Silence is the most powerful scream.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. – Rumi

Only A Lovely Person Can Feel Your Silent Pain And Will Hold Your Hand Till You Become Strong Again.

Sometimes, silence can be fatal. When one could speak the truth but refrain could be the cause of many unfortunate events.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Your silence makes your word more powerful and effective.

Leaf blowers are excruciatingly lazy loud invasive rudeness, the hot air din of disrespect. – Terri Guillemets

Silence Quotes

In the beginning there was nothing but silence. In the end, silence also awaits.

Quiet and silence is a form of power. Thoughtful and wise people are not talkative people. – Dr T.P.Chia

When you are in the midst of chaos, retreat into oneself for a moment of silence and clarity.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. – Dorothy Dix

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. – Suzanne Finnamore

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, But silence breaks the heart.

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish! – Ivan Pani

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. – Charles de Gaulle

A good word is better than silence and silence is better than evil talks.

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

Silence Quotes

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet maybe we could understand something. – Federico Fellini

Silence is a great peacemaker. – Henry wadsworth Longfellow

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. – Pierre Bourdieu

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. – Nicholas Sparks

Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder. – Bob Dylan

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. – Charlotte Bronte

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

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. – Joe Bousquet

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time. – Margaret Atwood

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy. – Taylor Swift

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms. – Norman Vincent Peale

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. -Elbert Hubbard

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. – Stephen Richards

Sometimes, the most meaningful things are found through silence.

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

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need not waste time in trying. – L.M. Montgomery

Silence Quotes

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr

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

Speech is great; but silence is greater. – Carlyle

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. – Marcel Marceau

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

All was silent as before All silent save the dripping rain. – Longfellow

When silence is used as a weapon it can wound even more than words. – Jill Thrussell

Remember that silence Is something the best answer.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting. – Eric Maisel

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

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. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain

Silence is sometimes the best answer. – Dalai Lama

Best Silence Quotes

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. – Helen Keller

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. – Faith Baldwin

A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence. – Shannon L. Alder

Silence and Self-control is non-violence. – Lord Mahavir

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

Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence. – Spanish proverb

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. – John Cage

Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it. – Danish proverb

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes. – Don Delillo

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished. – Djuna Barnes

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. – George Steiner

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

Silence stopped us slipping into the lousy script. – Glen Duncan

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