There is a lot of wisdom in silence. It can be a time to reflect, gather your thoughts and regroup. Silence can also be a form of strength, power and resilience.
The best silence quotes
1. The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. — Robert Louis Stevenson
2. I don’t think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get. — Toni Morrison
3. Ephrem the Syrian says, ‘Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.’ — Way Of A Pilgrim
4. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech–speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. — L.M. Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard
5. The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard. — Ted Chiang, The Great Silence
6. When you believe your lie, it will curse your life forever. — Robert Ahaness, Goddess In The Silence
7. Silence is also conversation. — Ramana Maharshi
8. Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. — Robert Louis Stevenson
10. How do I learn to speakwhen silence is all I know? — Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams
11. Happiness cannot be owned.It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it. — Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
12. The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence. — Taylor Schake
13. ‘the one who has found inner silence, stops pondering over the meaning of life and starts living it. That’s the journey from ”going with the flow” to ”being the flow.’ — Rashmit Kalra
14. Chains of gold are still chains. — Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
15. Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I’m traveling. I watch movies without sound. — A. R. Rahman
16. Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms. — Norman Vincent Peale
17. I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence. — Michel Foucault
18. Ephrem the Syrian says, ‘Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.’ — Way Of A Pilgrim
19. Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say. — Suman Pokhrel
20. The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worsethan any danger. — Willowy Whisper, This Hostile Land
21. Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence. — Samuel Butler
22. There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. — Ranata Suzuki
23. Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams! — Mehmet Murat ildan
24. The silence was suddenly too charged, his face too beautiful in the light. — Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin’s Blade
25. Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco
26. Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge. — J.K. Rowling
27. There’s nothing gay about living life straight — Paul B. Tripp, Choking On Silence
28. That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence. — Quentin Tarantino
29. In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul–stretching silence–wishing, waiting, hoping, praying. — Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
30. The basis lies in the idea that if you’re kind to others, good things will happen to you. — Max Gray, Silence of the God
31. May my touchalways…be tenderas i would strokemother’s cheekswhen she cried. — Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
32. When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. — Stephen Richards
33. The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole. — Swami Dhyan Giten
34. Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night. — Paul Gauguin
35. You have music in your heart — just listen in the deep silence to reveal it.
36. There is nothing more beautiful than the silence of nature. — Nina Hrusa
37. He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it’s silence held the answers to his questions. — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
38. God’s silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace. — Oswald Chambers
39. I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees. — Rabindranath Tagore
40. Silence heals. — Nadun Lokuliyanage
41. We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn’t feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange. — Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
42. First Embody the Emptiness of SilenceNext Embody the Fullness of Honesty & LoveThus Be HeavenSage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH… — Omid Mankoo
43. She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment. — Truth Devour, Unrequited
44. When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
45. The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi
46. Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
47. Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
48. Pozzo: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future. — Samuel Beckett
49. Silence is a powerful tool. — Na, I’ll Be Seeing You
50. Christmas — silence breathed childlike anticipation in your heart.
Conclusion
Silence can be powerful, calming, and even healing. It can also help us to listen to our inner voice and gain greater clarity in our lives. Ultimately, silence can be a powerful tool for self-reflection, growth and transformation. As the famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi states: “Silence is the best way to keep away from trouble and find peace.”