Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Quotations
Silence
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Purpose of words is to create silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When the world is too loud, silence is my only voice.
-Nouf Alfadl
Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
