Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Silence
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.
Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
When you connect to the silence within you; that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
-Stephen Richards
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
