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
Quotations
Silence
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
The silence between us talks itself.
-Anonymous
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
Only Silence is complete.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
