Quotes about Silence
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
— GK Chesterton
...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
— Wendell Berry
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma.
— Desmond Tutu
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
— Victor Hugo
If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.
— Joel Osteen
A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
— Margaret Atwood
I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
Where words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
— Will Rogers
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
— William Alexander
The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.
— William Faulkner