quotations about silence
Shutting the f*** up is seldom a bad move.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Cerulean Sins
Still-born Silence! thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart.
RICHARD FLECKNOE
Poems
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
attributed, The Gospel According to ESPN
Nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
Silence should be cultivated as a great virtue; it keeps secrets and avoids disputes.
WALTER MATTHEWS
Human Life from Many Angles
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word.
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
Silence
There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
O. A. BATTISTA
attributed, Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes
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
In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Ghost Sonata
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Many a fine sermon doth Nature preach on the ever-new, forever-transgressed text of silence. It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning; and gravity, which bindeth worlds together and keepeth them from falling asunder, is ever silent. Prettily, too, doth the silent snow cover the ground, and make it like unto a table spread for a feast: unlike the noisy rain, which, after making a goodly number of puddles, quickly runneth off.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Do not too hastily conclude that silence is indifference. Indifference is not to care, not to act, not even to think or breathe. Indifference is inhuman and inhumane. Silence, on the other hand, is almost always premeditated, a willful act. Without silence there would be no sound.
JUSTIN BRYAN SNIDER
posted on daily quotation board at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong, October 17, 2006
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Justine
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
THEODORE PARKER
"Justice and the Conscience", The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons & Prayers
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
About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus
Silence is golden, so they say. Except that silence, in a moral dilemma, represents complicity, as it does in a general legal -- or in a criminal -- matter. We are thus, presuming that we are moral beings, faced with a binary choice: remain silent or speak out. Each choice has consequences, and the path followed, its own implications.
ALAIN TSCHUDIN
"When silence is not golden", News 24, August 6, 2017
Silence must be heard.
ENIGMA
"Silence Must Be Heard"