Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
Quotations
Silence
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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"
