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"
Quotations
Silence
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Purpose of words is to create silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.
-Ellie Mathews
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
When the world is too loud, silence is my only voice.
-Nouf Alfadl
Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
-Mehmet Murat Ildan
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
-Muhammad Ali
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
