All noise is waste.  So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low.  Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.  ~Author Unknown

Silence is a text easy to misread.  ~A.A. Attanasio

The silence depressed me.  It wasn’t the silence of silence.  It was my own silence.  ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Silence is medication for sorrow.  ~Arab Proverb

Soon silence will have passed into legend.  Man has turned his back on silence.  Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation… tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.  His anxiety subsides.  His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.  ~Jean Arp

Honk if you hate noise pollution.  ~Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace.  You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.  ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me silent be,
For silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.
~Richard Henry Stoddard

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.  ~James ThurberCUL

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily.  ~Gwendolyn Bennett

Silence is a source of great strength.  ~Lao Tzu

Noise:  a stench in the ear.  ~Ambrose BierceCCDP

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.  ~Proverb

Keep watch over your mouth, lest it bring you to grief.  ~Ahiqar the AssyrianYgw10

Nothing is more useful than silence.  ~Menander of Athens

Silence was never written down.  ~Italian Proverb

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.  ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.  ~John LahrCUL

Silence is also speech.  ~Proverb

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.  ~Confucius

What shall I say to you?  What can I say
Better than silence is?  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you can’t get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud. ~Terri Guillemets

Silence is a fence around wisdom.  ~German Proverb

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.  ~Elbert Hubbard

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.  Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue;
who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
~Cato, translated from Latin

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.  ~Thomas Carlyle