The fragrant hair,
Falling as through the silence falleth now
Dusk of the air.
Silence Quotes
Silence is a topic where the shortest lines do best. Wittgenstein’s “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” closes the Tractatus (1922), and de Gaulle, in Le Fil de l’épée (1932), says nothing builds up authority like silence. Longfellow’s Evangeline (1847) has sorrow and silence both strong, with patient endurance godlike.
Two sayings are credited to Publilius Syrus and marked disputed: that he has often regretted his speech and never his silence, and that one should be silent or say something better than silence. “Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise” is credited to Anatole France and flagged misattributed. The notes trace it to an eighteenth-century poem, Bernard de Bonnard’s “Le Silence,” in the Almanach des Muses (1776).
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
For words divide and rend;
But silence is most noble till the end.
You can accuse them of any deeds you like.
Their reply will always be silence.
The day in his hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The night in her silence,
The stars in their calm.
A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.
Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.
Thou art like silence unperplexed,
A secret and a mystery
Between one footfall and the next.
The word "Silence" today sounds "bridegroom" or the "tragedy of love".
Let us learn to open our hearts in silence and present our hearts before God as they are.
Silence is the surest resolve for him who distrusts himself.
How Doom hold heat, and preach non-violence? Shhh, he 'bout to start the speech, c'mon, silence!
Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.