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
Quotations
Silence
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 truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.
-Ellie Mathews
