Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Quotations
Silence
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
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.
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
