Quotes about Silence
Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.
— John C. Wright
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
— John Calvin
For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
— John Donne
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love
— John Donne
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
— Albert Camus
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Khalil Gibran
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.
— Stephen Hawking
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
— Victor Hugo
The one religion is beyond all speech.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
— Edith Wharton