Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
Quotations
Silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
-Muhammad Ali
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
