Silence Quotes

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Your silence gives consent.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Silence gives the proper grace to women.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.

Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.

Listen to the sound of silence.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak 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.

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

Silence is sometimes the answer.

Silence was never written down.

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Silence on a hill where the path ended and then the forest below moving in one long whisper as evening touched the leaves.