Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Quotations
Silence
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
-Muhammad Ali
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"
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"
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
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"
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
