He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
Quotations
Silence
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
When the world is too loud, silence is my only voice.
-Nouf Alfadl
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
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.
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
