In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
Quotations
Silence
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
-Mehmet Murat Ildan
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
