When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Quotations
Silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
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"
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
Silence is golden, and gold is up these days, so silence is a solid investment.
-Jarod Kintz
Only Silence is complete.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
