Silent - Silence Quotes

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say?… for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

Every noble deed dieth, if surpressed in silence.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

It is the wise head that makes the still tongue.

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.

Calumnities are best answered with silence.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew – And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.