It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
Quotations
Silence
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
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"
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
-Muhammad Ali
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
