Quotations
Silence
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
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
- Norman Maclean
Things that are real are given and received in silence. God has been everlastingly working in silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His infinite silence.
- A Spiritual Leader
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
- A Spiritual Leader
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
- Paul Brunton
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
- Nicholas Sparks
Your silence gives consent.
- Plato
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
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.
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