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).
Sometimes, its best to stay QUIET. The silence can speak volumes without ever saying a word…
Of keeping silence few have paid the cost;
Of having said too much, a countless host.
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. (p90)
The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence
"The conspiracy of silence has diminished the horror of what our people faced,"
In a novel or a movie, it’s often silence that communicates what cannot be said through words.