Silence Quotes

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

Many words are spoken when there’s nothing to say.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

You ain't learning nothing when you're talking.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, it makes no sound.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.