2,656 Quotes About Silence

Silence fell with night, but Jacob couldn't entirely silence his racing mind, nor speed it up to the finish line.

The simmering crystal fragments had certainly found a grave within her.

You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness danceand hear silence sing.You must be more awake than lightfor we aren’t born sleepingand we shouldn’t live sleeping.Only then will death’s slumberbecome sweet.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

Your silence will not protect you.

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

People who know how to keep their mouths shut are rare.

I love silence but prefer speech: its warmth, energy, humanity.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.