Silence Quotes

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water A deep resonance.
Matsuo Bash



The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.
Matthew Arnold



Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Honor de Balzac



A fence to wisdom is silence.
Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph



Some signs of understanding are: clemency, knowledge, and silence. Silence is one of the doors to wisdom. It brings about love and is evidence for all good.
Ali al-Rida



Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences.
Ali al-Rida



A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Durante degli Alighieri



Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fairplay will bring more friends; benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence; service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



To restore silence is the role of objects.
Samuel Beckett



I feel grateful to the happy chance which forced me to compose freely and in silence, and has thus delivered me from the tyranny of the fingers, so dangerous to thought.
Louis Hector Berlioz



Ask the world to reveal its quietude not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
Wendell Berry



To-day's house makes to-morrows road; I knew these heaps of stone When they were walls of grace and might, The countrys honour, arts delight That over fountain'd silence show'd Fame's final bastion.
Edmund Charles Blunden



There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
Taylor Swift



All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
Ray Douglas Bradbury



He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers.
Lois McMaster Bujold