Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Silence
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
The silence between us talks itself.
-Anonymous
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
