Top 100 Silence Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Hear, see, and be silent.”

— Baltasar Gracián

52. “In the silence of the heart God speaks. 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

53. “Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.”

— Mother Teresa

54. “Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

55. “You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.”

— Ramana Maharshi

56. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

57. “In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.”

— Thomas Merton

58. “The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.”

— Thomas Merton

59. “True Silence is really endless speech.”

— Ramana Maharshi

60. “Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.”

— Ramana Maharshi

61. “There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

62. “We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

63. “There is a place where words are born of silence.”

— Rumi

64. “When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.”

— Ramana Maharshi

65. “In music, silence is more important than sound.”

— Miles Davis

66. “You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that.”

— Mooji

67. “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

68. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

— Marcus Aurelius

69. “All is known in the sacredness of silence.”

— Rumi

70. “That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.”

— Paul Brunton

71. “Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.”

— Euripides

72. “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”

— Pythagoras

73. “God speaks in the silence of the heart.”

— Mother Teresa

74. “Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

— Haruki Murakami

75. “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

— C.G. Jung

76. “Meditation is the action of silence.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

77. “Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.”

— Isaac Newton

78. “Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.”

— Tom Ford

79. “Only cowards hide behind silence.”

— Paulo Coelho

80. “There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

— Rumi

81. “Great souls suffer in silence.”

— Friedrich Schiller

82. “Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.”

— Saint Augustine

83. “There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”

— Helen Keller

84. “Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; it makes us value the inner world; it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.”

— Deepak Chopra

85. “In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE.”

— Rumi

86. “Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.”

— Michael Jackson

87. “External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.”

— Ram Dass

88. “True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”

— Isabel Allende

89. “Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

— Isabel Allende

90. “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

— Elie Wiesel

91. “Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

92. “Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

93. “We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

— Ram Dass

94. “Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.”

— Robin S. Sharma

95. “Where am I, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

96. “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”

— Charlotte Brontë

97. “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

— Audre Lorde

98. “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

— Khalil Gibran

99. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

100. “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

— Christopher Hitchens