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).
What watering is to plants, exactly the same is continual silence for the growth of knowledge.
More and more the Chicana woman is emerging out of a traditionally imposed silence.
My words may turn into stones/as easily as a man/turned one day into silence.
“Poetry is a way of returning to the silence of the soul, but also a way of resisting oblivion.”
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
exchanging agreeable remarks for no other purpose than to keep silence from closing in.
How can they silence me/when all the echoes of the universe shall be/symphonies in my forehead?