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"
Quotations
Silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.
-Steve Maraboli
Only Silence is complete.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
