Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Quotations
Silence
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"
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
Purpose of words is to create silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The silence between us talks itself.
-Anonymous
Smiling with all the existence is Silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
