Quotes about Silence

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

I tell myself I talk to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use the words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will. At such times I understand why Cruso preferred not to disturb his muteness. I understand, that is to say, why a man will choose to be a slaveowner. Do you think less of me for this confession?

The silence was an intense roar.

And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.

Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - What is the meaning of the void? The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.