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
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
Only Silence is complete.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
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"
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
