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"
Quotations
Silence
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
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"
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
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 "Meher Baba"
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Nights in Rodanthe"
