Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Quotations
Silence
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
