2,656 Quotes About Silence

Writing is also an aspiration to silence.

In silence this profound you felt different. Some deep, rusty, older part of your brain urged you to remain quiet, to avoid being noticed.

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

Cowardice can be defended bravely without self-­refutation, because the opposite of cowardice is not courage but bravado.

The wrong things are said when there is nothing that can be said.

We need silence: silence and the stars.

Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.

I love silence and to be silent. But silence solves nothing.