In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
