Silence Quotes

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

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.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.