Silent - Silence Quotes

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one’s own confusions.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

We knew the world would never be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the “Bhagavad Gita”… “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. (recalling the explosion of the […]

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak to each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.

She half consents who silently denies.