2,656 Quotes About Silence

The silence is the language and the diplomacy of the vision, where that can be the stupidity too.

Silence in front of savagery is savagery itself.

Intellectually just saying "all lives matter", you may feel very good about yourself, you may feel, "I am so profound, I go beyond what people are able to see", but actually you do not see anything, you don't see the basic issues that people face, you don't see the ground-level problems that people face, you don't see the regular hate that people face, in their everyday walk of life, you are just a closet philosopher who loves to feel good in glorifying the indifference of the society.

Es schneite, als sie ans Seeufer ins Freie traten, und hinter ihnen verschwand die Burg zwischen den wirbelden Flecken, als löse sie sich auf in Weiß. Die Welt um sie her war so still, als hätte sie alle Worte aufgebraucht, als wäre nun alles erzählt, was es in dieser Welt zu erzählen gab.

Sometimes, silence falls under cruelty too, whether it is towards yourself, or others

A man should speak only if his words carry more value than silence.

As time passes, we are becoming increasingly unfamiliar with the most abundant thing in the universe: Silence

...it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

Truth doesn't make a noise.