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).
We must reject the thought of Saint Paul who said, “let the woman marry in silence."
Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.
“And what happened next?”
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.”
A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence [...]
The mind moved, not alone,
Through the clear air, in the silence.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.
I was brought up in a house where there was a great deal of silence.
Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.
Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence.
I remember feeling silenced and alone,the pain was almost too much to bear.