Quotes about Silence

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.

For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

Archer reddened to the temples, but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock about it if it were left undisturbed

He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.

Evil prevails if good people say nothing. -