Silence

In quiet places, reason abounds.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen .

Lie quiet Divus.

[Thomas Carlyle] loves silence somewhat platonically.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music and silence.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

There is an eloquent silence: it serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Thought works in silence, so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

O, well it has been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!