Silent - Silence Quotes

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

Silence is sometimes the answer.

He who cannot keep silence cannot speak.

The silence of the people is a warning for the king.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak.

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Be silent, or say something better than silence.