Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
Quotations
Silence
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
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"
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
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"
Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.
-Ellie Mathews
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
