Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Silence
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
Smiling with all the existence is Silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When the world is too loud, silence is my only voice.
-Nouf Alfadl
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"
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
