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Someone had rightly said, “Silence is the most powerful scream”. You may be a big yapper, yet during those difficult moments in conversation, it’s silence that can help you glide through. Silence not only leaves you with few tranquil moments for self-introspection but also helps you to connect with your innermost self. Silence has been the biggest virtue of the wise. Silence isn’t just a big stress buster but is the big secret to happy and successful life. Trail down these famous calm/peaceful quotations and sayings for more on silence.

Elizabeth I

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Confidential Faith
Elizabeth I
William S. Burroughs

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

People Communication
William S. Burroughs
H. P. Lovecraft

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Darkness Solitude
H. P. Lovecraft
Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music
Aldous Huxley
Elie Wiesel

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Life Night Darkness
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Elbert Hubbard

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Words
Elbert Hubbard
Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Friendship
Alice Walker
Jack Whitehall

Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

Prayer
Jack Whitehall
Adele

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Adele
Che Guevara

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Che Guevara
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

Belief Peace Concentration God
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Martin Luther King, Jr.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

People Society Tragedy History
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Opinion Peace Compassion Simplicity
Malcolm X
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nothing Power
Leonardo da Vinci
Florence Pugh

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

Florence Pugh
Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Darkness Happiness
Helen Keller

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.

Stars Nature
Mother Teresa
Judy Garland

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Love People
Judy Garland
Cameron Diaz

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

Buddhism Opinion Peace People
Cameron Diaz
Jurnee Smollett

Never let anyone silence your voice.

Jurnee Smollett
Audre Lorde

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Fear Respect Women
Audre Lorde
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Greatness Truth
Aldous Huxley
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Genius
Edgar Allan Poe
George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Life Heart Vision
George Eliot
Audre Lorde

Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde
Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Wisdom
Plutarch
Benjamin Franklin

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Benjamin Franklin
Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Kindness Teachers
Khalil Gibran
Sandra Day O'Connor

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Religion
Sandra Day O'Connor
Muhammad Ali

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Good
Muhammad Ali
Taika Waititi

I play music all the time because silence freaks me out.

Music Time
Taika Waititi

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Night Faith
Elie Wiesel
Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Greatness Sea Truth Water
Rabindranath Tagore
William S. Burroughs

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

Lonliness Religion
William S. Burroughs
Taylor Swift

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

Taylor Swift
George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.

Good People
Chris Pratt

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.

Night
Trevor Noah
Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Space
Blaise Pascal
Don DeLillo

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Nature Work Ideas
Don DeLillo
Lao Tzu

Silence is a source of great strength.

Greatness Strength
Lao Tzu
Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Epictetus

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Epictetus
Diana Rigg

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

Best Peace People
Diana Rigg
Giancarlo Esposito

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

Life Love
Giancarlo Esposito
Gary Oldman

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Gary Oldman
Anatole France

Silence is the wit of fools.

Anatole France
Elie Wiesel

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

Violence Language
Elie Wiesel
Khalil Gibran

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.

Earth
Khalil Gibran
Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the mother of truth.

Truth
Benjamin Disraeli
Epictetus

Silence is safer than speech.

Epictetus

I was always very quiet, and I think everyone thought that was because I was a good child. I'd sit there in silence, but it wasn't until my mother was calling me one day when I was very young that she realised something was wrong because I wasn't responding.

Good
Jameela Jamil
Jurnee Smollett

The AIDS epidemic began before I was born - I've never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in our lives, there remains a pervasive silence around AIDS among young people, particularly young women.

People Women World
Jurnee Smollett
Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Confucius
Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Sleep Wisdom
Francis Bacon
Albert Camus

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

World
Albert Camus
Justin Timberlake

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

World
Justin Timberlake
Hermann Hesse

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

School
Hermann Hesse
T. S. Eliot

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Void Books
T. S. Eliot
Plato

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Plato
Samuel Johnson

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Samuel Johnson
Sandra Bullock

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

Time
Sandra Bullock
George Bernard Shaw

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw
Matthew Perry

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Matthew Perry
Jodie Foster

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

People
Jodie Foster
Henry David Thoreau

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Words
Henry David Thoreau
Marilyn Manson

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

Music Sleep
Marilyn Manson
Roman Reigns

Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I'm going to be here for a long time.

Time
Roman Reigns
Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Nothing
Robert Louis Stevenson
Abraham Lincoln

I am rather inclined to silence.

Abraham Lincoln
Khalil Gibran

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Art Knowledge
Khalil Gibran
Sandra Bullock

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Time
Sandra Bullock

I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

Fall
Viggo Mortensen

When people are uncomfortable - and many people are when they have to negotiate - they start rambling as a way to fill the vacuum of silence. Some of the strongest negotiators I know just sit back and listen. The less they engage, the more likely the other person is to slip up and offer information they otherwise would have kept guarded.

People Information
Ivanka Trump

Punctuality is the duty of subjects and the politeness of kings.

Duty Royalty
Anonymous

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Passover Domination Confidence Depression
Anonymous