Inspirational quiet quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Quiet Quotes
My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people. Patricia Highsmith
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. Erich Segal
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Khaled Hosseini
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
Listen to the silence. It has so much to say. Rumi
Saying nothing sometimes says the most. Emily Dickinson
There was a brief silence. I think I heard the snow falling. Erich Segal
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. Iain Duncan Smith
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. Hilaire Belloc
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths. It is dark and mysterious in the waters of grace. Yet in the silent darkness, we are given new eyes. In the heart of the divine, we can see more clearly who we are. We are renewed and cleansed in this river of silence. Macrina Wiederkehr
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Francis Bacon
God is the friend of silence. See how natüre trees, flowers, grass grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. Mother Teresa
I think a lot, but I don’t say much. Anne Frank
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet maybe we could understand something. Federico Fellini
Anything hurts less than the quiet. Troye Silvan
In the silence behind what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long. Andreas Fransson
Quiet people have the loudest minds. Stephen Hawking
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch
The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside. Naval Ravikant
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Emily Bronte
Sometimes it is good to leap into the unknown. Practice leaping. Macrina Wiederkehr
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. 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
Being quiet does not mean passivity. It means being more tolerant, understanding, and focused. Remez Sasson
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
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. Simon Van Booy
The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes. Rick Rubin
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Martha Beck
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content. Helen Keller
Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. George Steiner
Learning to be quiet, making our mind quiet and peaceful, and seeking moments of quietness in our everyday life is most essential for a happy and sane life. Remez Sasson
The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion. Kapil Gupta
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence. Shannon L. Alder
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. Carl Jung
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. Napoleon Hill
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 Bronte
It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be and so people here can coexist and live together. Jesse Jackson
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise. James Stephens
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. Samuel Johnson
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. Publilius Syrus
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. Aishwarya Rai
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain
Silence speaks louder than angry words. Silence is a strong argument that is hard to contend with. Dr. T.P. Chia
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin
Everything that is created comes out of silence. Thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Words come out of the void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. Wayne Dyer
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. Octavia Butler
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer. Muhammad Ali
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Rumi
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
Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. Mandy Hale
Silence is argument carried out by other means. Ernesto Che Guevara
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. Virginia Woolf
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mohandas Gandhi
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. Iain Duncan Smith
George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers. Ray Comfort
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you. Douglas Coupland
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. George Henry Lewes
Silence is a source of great strength. Lao Tzu
By silence, I hear other men’s imperfections and conceal my own. Citium Zeno
When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams
Silence is interesting. It can show confusion, indifference and sadness. But it can also show determination, confidence and caring. Maxime Lagacé
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. Albert Einstein
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. Ezra Taft Benson
I think a lot but I don’t say much. Anne Frank
The true genius shudders at incompleteness and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe
Speak only if it improves upon the silence. Gandhi
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. Virginia Woolf
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us. Lawrence Durrell
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams
A character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. Eugenio Montale
A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
Withdraw into yourself, perceive there a silence as old as being, even older. Emil Cioran
Speech is silver, silence is golden. Thomas Carlyle
I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr
Saying nothing sometimes says the most. Emily Dickinson
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. Audre Lorde
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Emily Bronte
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
