Quotes About Silence

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

Books are dead men talking.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.