quotations about silence
Nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
Often silence is a powerful weapon. If we only knew how valiantly it could serve us in defense we should use it more. Under abuse or attack it may be the sign of guilt; but it may also be a proof of innocence and an unmistakable evidence of nobility.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays
It's not a bad idea for a politician to remember that no newspaper can misquote silence.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips & Quotes
If all the world were music,
Our hearts would often long
For one sweet strain of silence.
To break the endless song.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"If All the Skies"
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC
Unkempt Thoughts
Silence when in pain
Silence when my thoughts may cause a slight unease
Silence when in pain
Silence cause the fear it begins with a sound
Silence in the chair where they give me the answers
Silence when I'm asking a difficult question
Silence cause I already know all the facts yeah
Silence cause I don't want to hear it today
FICTION PLANE
"Silence"
Silence must be heard.
ENIGMA
"Silence Must Be Heard"
Silence is so freaking loud.
SARAH DESSEN
Just Listen
Silence is silence -- though it may speak volumes.
JOHN MCTERNAN
"Why Big Ben's silence upsets so many Brits", CNN, August 21, 2017
Silence has many beauties.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
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
I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.
ELSA BARKER
Songs of a Vagrom Angel
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Justine
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
When Silence speaks for Love, she has much to say.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
To women silence is the best ornament.
SOPHOCLES
Ajax
Silence is the safety zone of conversation.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW
attributed, Reader's Digest, 1975
Be silent or say something better than silence.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical