You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Quotations
Silence
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.
-Cecelia Ahern
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
