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"
Quotations
Silence
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
