A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
In an endless silence even screams sound silent.
I need you." "I'm here." And we sit in silence.
Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.
Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.
Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.
The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.
there is some aching that will only heal... in the mosque of sleep.
Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
