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Silence Quotes

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
William Shakespeare
"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"
Franz Kafka
"Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk."
Alice Walker
"The caravan of life shall always pass; do not breathe a word, let it pass"
Omar Khayyam
"When God is about to break his silence, and come forth out of his place, he speaks out of free grace and love to his people."
Jonathan Edwards
"Silence is a lesson learned through life's many sufferings"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn"
Nicholas Sparks
"Silence? What can be better than to sit thus by the hour and be soothed with the world"
Walt Whitman
"Writing is a struggle against silence."
Mario Vargas Llosa
"He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The source of all the material comes from nothingness, silence, and emptiness."
Isabel Allende
"If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything"
Bill Watterson
"The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories"
Carl Jung
"The realm of silence and the realm of words are the farthest apart of anything in creation."
James Earl Jones
"I am ashamed to tell you this, but I have nothing to say"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The man who cannot take sides must keep silent."
Walter Benjamin
"In times of war, the laws fall silent"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers"
Khalil Gibran
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts"
Khalil Gibran
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