Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Silence
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
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"
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
