You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Quotations
Silence
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
