Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
"No Man Is an Island"
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
