Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Quotations
Silence
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.
-Ellie Mathews
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.
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
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"
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
-Nicholas Sparks
"The Notebook"
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
