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.”