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
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Nights in Rodanthe"
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The silence between us talks itself.
-Anonymous
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
