The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
Quotations
Silence
Only Silence is complete.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Purpose of words is to create silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
