Salient Quotes About Silence for You to Reflect Upon
Shhhhh! Ah, silence, often so coveted. Sometimes the opposite. Is silence golden? Or is it deadly? Here we present the best quotes and musings we could find on peace and quiet - joyous silence - for your entertainment. We hope you like them, and please share.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
