Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Quotations
Silence
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
-Nicholas Sparks
"The Notebook"
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
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.
Things that are real are given and received in silence. God has been everlastingly working in silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His infinite silence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Meher Baba"
