Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Quotations
Silence
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
Only Silence is complete.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
