The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
Quotations
Silence
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Nights in Rodanthe"
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
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"
