In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.
Nicholas Udall
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
William Wordsworth
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Unknown
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr
Silence on a hill where the path ended and then the forest below moving in one long whisper as evening touched the leaves.
William Stafford
Summer makes a silence after spring.
Vita Sackville-West
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic