Quotes About Silence

If something goes without saying, let it.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Let papers speak and beards be silent.

...Shall I go on? Or have I said enough?...

earth dreams of spring in her winter slumbers she dozes on and off — then trembles wide awake a silent green earthquake

The sunrise opened above them like some cosmic explosion, shining and shattering and yet silent; as if the world were blown to pieces without a sound. Round the rays of the victorious sun swept a sort of rainbow of confused and conquered colours — brown and blue and green and flaming rose-colour; as though gold were driving before it all the colours of the world.

My [c?ck] don't talk politics.

Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.

When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

My soul lives somewhere between silence and the moon.

A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.

Winter is the slow-down Winter is the search for self Winter gives the silence we need to listen Winter goes gray so we can see our own colors...

Winter stars blaze in silent joy.

Make time for quiet moments, as God whispers and the world is loud.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Criminal Minds, The Bunker: "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

The teeth form a barrier to check wanton words.

Never Explain Anything

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

Emptiness is emptiness. San Francisco or Delhi. Wherever you go, the emptiness surrounds you. Silence will follow you wherever you go.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.