Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Quotations
Silence
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
Purpose of words is to create silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
Only Silence is complete.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
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
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
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.
