It’s all too easy to become lost in the din of daily living. When you need to relax, collect your thoughts, or calm your mind, these silence quotes will come in handy.
Silence encompasses much more than the lack of sound. It can also be the presence of tranquility, clarity, and peace.
With so much actual and figurative noise around us, it’s more vital than ever to appreciate stillness and use it for regeneration rather than seeking out additional distractions.
So, to demonstrate what stillness and quietness have to give, here are the best silence quotes.
220+ Silence Quote to Appreciate Stillness
Silence is a source of great strength.___Lao Tzu
The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.___Clarice Lispector
Your silence will not protect you.― Audre Lorde
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.__Leonardo da Vinci
Silence is more eloquent than words.– Thomas Carlyle
Never miss a good chance to shut up.― Will Rogers
Silence is so freaking loud.― Sarah Dessen
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.___Confucius
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.___Charles Caleb Colton
Speech is silver, silence is golden.___Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.___Francis Bacon
Silence is true wisdom’s best reply. – Euripides
Silence is better than unmeaning words.___Pythagoras
Quotes about Silence
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.__Charlotte Brontë
Silence is the cornerstone of character.– Charles Alexander Eastman
A man is known by the silence he keeps.___Oliver Hereford
I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.― Lewis Carroll
Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.___Tom Ford
Let silence take you to the core of life.___Rumi
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.___Myrtle Reed
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.___W. S. Merwin
Never be bullied into silence.___Harvey Fierstein
Hope will never be silent.___Harvey Milk
Silence is the eternal duty of man.___Thomas Carlyle
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.___Gordon Hempton
Listen to silence. It has so much to say.___Rumi
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.― Chaim Potok
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.___Pythagoras
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.___Charles Caleb Colton
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.___Henri Frederic Amiel
Work hard in silence, let your success make the noise.___Frank Ocean
Great souls suffer in silence. – Friedrich Schiller
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.___Nicholas Sparks
If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.___Pythagoras
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.― George Eliot
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.___Abraham Lincoln
Your very silence shows you agree.__Euripides
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.___Josh Billinngs
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.___Shannon L. Alder
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. – Balthasar Gracian
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.― Ansel Adams
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.___Francis Beaumont
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.___Karen Marie Moning
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.___Ansel Adams
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.___Aeschylus
We need silence to be able to touch souls.___Mother Teresa
Real action is in silent moments.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.― Woody Allen
The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion.___Kapil Gupta
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.___Martgin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is the wit of fools.___Anatole France
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.____Albert Einstein
Silence is the mother of truth.– Benjamin Disraeli
The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know; it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge.___Don Miguel Ruiz
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.― Edith Sitwell
Silence is the virtue of fools.____Francis Bacon
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.____Marcus Tullius Cicero
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.___Dante Alighieri
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.___Chaim Potok
I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.____Soren Kierkegaard___Inner Silence
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.___Eckhart Tolle
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.___Ram Dass
Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands.___Pico Lyer
Silence about a thing just magnifies it.___Tennessee Williams
Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths.___Macrina Wiederkehr
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.___Victor Hugo
Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.___Buddha
The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.___Naval Ravikant
Inner silence is the mother of all talents. –Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.___Amit Ray
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.___Deepak Chopra
Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.___Robert Adams
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.___George Bernard Shaw
Within each of us, there is silence. A silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.___Gunilla Norris
The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.– Alfred Brendel
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.___Norman Vincent Peale
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.___Henry David Thoreau
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.___Sri Chinmoy
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.___Eckhart Tolle
Withdraw into yourself, perceive there a silence as old as being, even older.____Emil Cioran
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.___Blaise Pascal
Silence and Sound
Sound is our mind, silence is our being.__Osho
Silence is so freaking loud.___Sarah Dessen
Noise: a stench in the ear.___Ambrose Pierce
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.___Socrates
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.___Julius Lester
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.___Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Silence is exhilarating at first – as noise is – but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.___Edward Hoagland
Silence is more musical than any song.__Christina Rossetti
The silence is so deep it hurts our ears. –Haruki Murakami
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.___Aldous Huxley
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.___Thomas Merton
Silence and Communication
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.__Virginia Woolf
Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work.___Les Brown
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.__George Henry Lewes
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.___Susan Sontag
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.__Mark Helprin
Silence is also a conversation.___Ramana Maharshi
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.___Simon Van Booy
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.___Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence is safer than speech.___Epictetus
Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts.___José Rodrigues Miguéis
To hear, one must be silent. – Ursula K. Le Guin
We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.___Martgin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.___Craig Bruce
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.__Abraham Lincoln
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.___Thomas Carlyle
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.___Phyllis McGinley
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the silence.___Anthony de Mello
Speech is the small change of silence. – George Meredith
Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.___Jean-Paul Sartre
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.__Publilius Syrus
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.___Elbert Hubbard
Don’t waste words on people deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.__Mandy Hale
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.___George Eliot
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.___Mahatma Gandhi
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.___Pythagoras
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.___Christian Nestell Bovee
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.___Mark Twain
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.___Henry David Thoreau
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.___William S. Burroughs
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.___Benjamin Franklin
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.___Epictetus
Never miss a good chance to shut up. – Will Rogers
Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it.___Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.__German Proverb
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.___Edgar Allan Poe
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.___Napoleon Hill
It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.___Alex Trebek
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.___Thomas Carlyle
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.___William Shakespeare
Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.– Osho
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.___Seneca, The Elder
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.___Samuel Johnson
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.__Benjamin Franklin
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.___Napoleon Bonaparte
The Benefits of Silence
Nothing is more useful than silence.__Menander
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.__Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.___Federico Fellini
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.___Albert Einstein
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.___Emily Bronte
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.___Chaim Potok
Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.___John Boyle O’Reilly
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.___Plutarch
In the silence behind what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long.___Andreas Fransson
If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you’ll be surprised what goes through your head.___Sandra Bullock
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.– Emily Dickinson
The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes.___Rick Rubin
Silence is sometimes the best answer.___Dalai Lama
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.___Cato The Elder
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.___Rumi
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.___Mark Twain
The truth hurts, but silence kills.___Mark Twain
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.___Muhammad Ali
A silent man is easily reputed wise. – Frederick William Robertson
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.___Emile M. Cioran
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.___Charles de Gaulle
If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.___Mother Teresa
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.___Lance Morrow
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.___Meister Eckhart
Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.___Aeschylus
You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.___Sathya Sai Baba
To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about.___Alan Watts
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.___Rachel Naomi Remen
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.___Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The space, the gaps, the pauses, the silence – those things that allow us to regenerate and recharge – had all but disappeared in my own life and in the lives of so many I knew.___Arianna Huffington
Silence gives us space to process our experiences and soak in our surroundings.___Cati Vanden Breul
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.___Elizabeth Gilbert
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.___Bob Dylan
Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.__Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. – William Shakespeare
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.___Mahatma Gandhi
Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot.___Jack Kerouac
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.___Thomas Carlyle
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries.___Wayne Dyer
Silence, healing.___Heraclitus
By silence, I hear other men’s imperfections and conceal my own.___Citium Zeno
Being Quiet Quotes
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.___Euripides
Quiet is the new loud. – Joe Robtail
I was quiet, but I was not blind.___Jane Austen
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.___Iain Duncan Smith
One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.___Sarah Orne Jewett
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.___Carol Bartz
The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.___Rumi
When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise.___Elizabeth Eulberg
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.___Susann L. Taylor
If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.___Albert Einstein
Deep rivers run quiet.___Haruki Murakami
A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.___Rumi
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.___Walter Bagehot
Take time to be quiet.___Zig Ziglar
Quiet people have the loudest minds.___Stephen Hawking
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.___Henry J. Kaiser
Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.___Kathryn L. Nelson
You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.___Stephen Cbosky
The more you know, the less you need to say. – Jim Rohn
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.___Blaise Pascal
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.__Bertrand Russell
Quiet people always know more than they seem.___Criss Jami
Quietness Quotes
In quietness the soul expands. – Rockwell Kent
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.___Hazrat Inayat Khan
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions.___Elbert Hubbard
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.___Helen Keller
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.___James Stephens
All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.___Patrick Lindsay
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.___Helen Keller
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.__Mahatma Gandhi
Quiet Minds
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.___Robert Louis Stevenson
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.___John Bunyan
It’s important to have quiet time and isolation.___John Burnside
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.___Marcus Aurelius
Simply wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you.___Franz Kafka
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.___Marian Wright Edelman
A quiet mind cureth all.___Robert Burton
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.___Robert Greene
Quieting your mind is the doorway to a peaceful soul.___Clyde Lee Denis
Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.___Hans Margolius