I leave you the best phrases of silence from great authors such as Woody Allen, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lao Tzu, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot and many more.
Silence is also communication; It can be both a shield and a dagger and through it we can both shield ourselves and hurt someone. It can convey anything from ignorance to wisdom and from anger to joy.
You may also be interested in these phrases of tranquility and inner peace.
-Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence.-Leonardo da Vinci.
-Never waste a good opportunity to be quiet.-Will Rogers.
-Silence is a source of great power.-Lao Tzu.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
-Shut up or say something better than silence.-Pythagoras.
-If there were a little more silence, if we all kept silence… maybe we could understand something.-Federico Fellini.
-Silence is golden when you can not think of a correct answer.-Muhammad Ali.
-There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.-Cecelia Ahern.
-Without silence there can be no real appreciation in life, which is as delicate as a closed rosebud.-Deepak Chopra.
-Silence is the mother of truth.-Benjamin Disraeli.
-Silence is a true friend that never betrays you.-Confucius.
-It is nice to talk about beautiful things and it is even more beautiful to look at them in silence.-Dejan Stojanovic.
-Silence in the right season is wisdom, and it is better than any speech.-Plutarco.
-The noise is relative to the silence that precedes it. The more absolute the silence, the more frightening the thunder.-Alan Moore, V for Vendetta.
-When you are able to transcend the aversion to silence, you will also overcome many other miseries.-Wayne W. Dyer.
-A heart worth loving is one that you always understand, even in silence.-Shannon L. Alder.
-Silence can sometimes be the most eloquent answer.-Hazrat Ali.
-Young people, cheeky and impatient, should always break the silence. It is a waste, because the silence is pure. Silence is sacred.-Nicholas Sparks.
-I decided it was better to scream. Silence is the true crime against humanity.-Nadezhda Mandelstam.
-Your silence will not protect you.-Audre Lorde.
-I have begun to notice that you can sit and listen to the silence and learn from it. It has quality and dimension by itself.-Chaim Potok.
-The silence is so damn loud.-Sara Dessen.
-When I pronounce the word silence, I break it.-Wisława Szymborska.
-Blessed is the man who, without having anything to say, refrains from uttering a word to corroborate that fact.-George Eliot.
-When the words become clear, I will concentrate on the photographs. When the images become inappropriate, I will be content with silence.-Robert Capa.
-God is silence. Now, if the man could only shut up.-Woody Allen.
-Does not everything depend on the interpretation that we give to the silence around us? -Lawrence Durrell.
-He who does not understand your silences, the most likely is that he does not understand your words either.-Elbert Hubbard.
-The wisest man is the silent.-Karen Marie Moning
-The biggest challenge after success is not saying anything about him.-Criss Jami.
'You have a great gift for silence, Watson. Makes you very valuable as a companion.- Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes Complete Series).
The true genius shudders at incomplete imperfection and usually prefers silence to saying something that is not all there is to say.-Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia.
35-Silence is only scary for people who suffer from compulsive verbiage.-William S. Burroughs.
-Seeing her sitting there without giving signs of anything makes me realize that silence has a sound.-Jodi Picoult.
-Silence is peace. Tranquility. Silence is lowering the volume of life. Silence is pressing the off button.-Khaled Hosseini
-Lying is done with words, and also with silences.-Adrienne Rich.
-Be quiet and safe; Silence will never betray you.-John Boyle.
-I have never heard anything more eloquent than silence.-Laurie Halse.
-It is not easy to remain silent when silence is a lie.-Víctor Hugo.
41- Silence makes fools seem intelligent, even for a minute.-Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-You think that silence is peaceful, but in reality it is painful.-David Levithan.
-Silence is the ultimate weapon in power.-Charles de Gaulle.
-When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence becomes a lie.-Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
-Green was the silence, damp was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.-Pablo Neruda, 100 sonnets of love.
-Sometimes there are simply no words, only a silence that floats like an ocean between the two.-Jodi Picoult.
-I have always loved the desert. You sit on a sand dune in the desert, you don't see anything, you don't hear anything. However, through the silence something throbs, and shines.-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-No sound is more annoying than the tantrum of a child, and none more sad than the silence it leaves when it is gone.-Mark Lawrence.
-There is more comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.-Thomas Merton.
-I like when you shut up because you are like absent.-Pablo Neruda.
-Lonely silence is what makes personal speech become authentic.-Brennan Manning.
-The splendid thing about falling apart silently, is that you can start over as many times as you want.-Sanober Khan.
-Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they pale, get sick and die. And then they chase you.-Diane Setterfield.
-When a question does not have a correct answer, there is only one valid alternative, the gray area between yes and no. The silence.-Dan Brown.
-Sometimes you have to sit alone on the floor of a quiet room to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.-Charlotte Eriksson
-The perfect prayer does not consist of many words, the silent memory and pure intention lift the heart to that supreme power.-Amit Ray.
-We refuse to turn off our computers or our phones and just be silent, because at that moment we will have to face who we really are.-Jefferson Bethke.
-A nervous silence releases tongues.-Jacqueline Carey.
-He extended a hand that I did not know how to take, so I broke his fingers with my silence.-Jonathan Safran Foer.
-Silence can be many times more disturbing than any noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts.-José Rodríguez Miguéis.
-The continuous breathing of the world is what we hear and call silence.-Clarice Lispector.
-Distrust silence. It does not always mean that you won the argument. People are often busy reloading their weapons.-Shannon L. Alder.
-There are silences of all kinds and different meanings transpire.-Charlotte Brontë.
-There are so beautiful moments in life that even words are a desecration.-Diana Palmer.
-Music is pleasant not only for the sound, but for the silence in it: without the alternation between sound and silence there would be no rhythm.-Thomas Merton.
-Silence is sometimes the most expensive of comfort.-Alan Bradley.
-When words are not easy, I will return to silence and find something in nothingness.-Strider Marcus Jones.
-There was a small silence, I think it was snow falling.-Erich Segal.
-Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent in the silent ocean.-Sri Chinmoy.
-The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.-Marianne Moore.
17-What we cannot talk about, we say in silence.-Hillary Jordan.
-Never say anything that does not improve the silence.-Richard Yates.
-My heart awakens to the sound of silence. And it beats with the sound of silence.-Francesco Egizi and David Nicholas.
-Perhaps the most important thing we give to a person is the silence that exists between us, not the kind of silence that is full of tacit criticism.-Rachel Naomi Remen.
-Silence is a place of great power and healing.-Rachel Naomi Remen.
-The silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark shadows of the trees that fell on their laps and that now seemed to rest on them.-Madeleine L'Engle.
-There is something very civilized in a relationship where long pauses are left in a conversation. Very few people can bear that kind of silence.-James Robertson.
-Silence is the element in which great things come together; In which they finally emerge, filled with a majestic form, in the light of the day of life.-Thomas Carlyle.
-Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.-Ellie Mathews.
-You're ignoring me so hard it's deafening. This silence is so deep that it is causing an echo.-Anna Jae.
-I have the power to enjoy the company of my friends both in silence and in conversation.-Anne Bronte.
35-Poets have the most difficult job in the Universe, which is to make silence in eloquence.-Sanober Kahn.
-Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel of all boring speeches and all idiotic acts, it is a balm for each of our dislikes.-Henry David Thoreau.
-Silence is the universal refuge… it is that background that the painter cannot smear… where no indignity can assault, and no personality can disturb us.-Henry David Thoreau.
-The silence is so deep that it hurts our ears.-Hariri Murukami.
-The power of the stalker, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on silence.-Úrsula K. Le Guin.
-It's the silence that scares me. It is the blank page on which I can write my own fears.-Mark Lawrence.
-The silence became unreal and suddenly seemed to be filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a silence that was too long.-Chaim Potok.
-And where there is no echo, there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.-Mark Z. Danielewski.
-You can listen to the silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension of its own. He talks to me sometimes… he talks and I can hear him.-Chaim Potok.
-You can hear the silence… you have to want to hear it and then you can hear it… It doesn't always speak. Sometimes she just cries and you can hear the pain in the world. At that moment it hurts to hear it.-Chaim Potok.
-We remain silent and we silence ourselves if we are enemies of friendship.-Norms Maclean.
-The eternal silence of those infinite spaces scares me.-David Markson.
-I heard the silence, infinite silence like the bottom of the ocean, a sealed silence.-Anne Spollen.
-Poems are difficult to silence.- Stephen Greenlatt.
-Some of the most powerful speeches I have given, have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.-Steve Maraboli.
-There comes a time when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.-Phillippe Dijan.
-The truth silently dwells in the seat of power.-TH Hodge.
-Isabel had silenced in a way that shouted silence.-Maggie Stiefvater.
-Meditation is silent, energizing and satisfying. Silence is the eloquent expression of the unexpected.-Sri Chinmoy.
-To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.-Louise Bourgeois.
-The silence is a lie that screams to the light.-Shannon L. Alder.
-There is music for lonely hearts almost always. If the music is turned off, there is a silence… to know silence perfectly is to know the music.-Carl Sandburg.
-I keep quiet so I can write. When my tongue moves, my fingers are silent.-Sonia Rumzi.
-What silence governs the ghostly hours? -George Sterling.
-I listen while I remain silent.-Eric Jerome Dickey.
-Each who found his greatest security in silence.-Jane Austen.
-When I say that I love silence, I am not being completely sincere. What I really love are the delicate and abundant sounds that are amplified when I am silent.-Richelle E. Goodrich.