quotations about silence
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Virginibus Puerisque
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
In truth, it would seem that, living in the incessant din of a Calvinistic country, the best course for thoughtful and serious men was to be silent.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
I am afraid you will forgive the length neither of my letter nor of my silence, and will be as much bored by the silver of the one as by the golden of the other.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mary Gladstone, March 15, 1880
Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk.
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Crossing Unmarked Snow
Silence stopped us slipping into the lousy script.
GLEN DUNCAN
Talulla Rising
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Silence is in the ear of the beholder.
ALEX BEAM
Boston Globe, August 7, 2017
Break the silence
Break the surface
Open your eyes
And be free
RMB
"Break the Silence"
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American
And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
OLIVER WENDALL HOLMES
The Music Grinder
Black emptiness
Despair
Dead I am
Infinite darkness and
Dreams
My journey begins
Forlorn in silence
LORD BELIAL
"Forlorn in Silence"
Silence taunts: a dare. Everything that disappears
Disappears as if returning somewhere.
TRACY K. SMITH
"The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"