Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Quotations
Silence
Smiling with all the existence is Silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Purpose of words is to create silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Silence is golden, and gold is up these days, so silence is a solid investment.
-Jarod Kintz
