Quotes
Quotes about Silence
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
? John Bartlett, compThe splendor of Silence,--of snow-jeweled hills and of ice.
A sound so fine, there's nothing lives
'Twixt it and silence.
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears.
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."
A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."
Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.
Then perhaps to die the death. An endless silence after a brief earth-sejourn. All the putative joys untasted. Circular speculation. A life wasted.
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
After silence, music comes closest to expressing the inexpressible.
After silence, music comes closest to expressing the inexpressible.
About the only worthwhile thing you can learn from a bore is how truly golden silence can be.
In order to see birds its is necessary to become a part of the silence.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
In order to see birds its is necessary to become a part of the silence.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Accustom to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
