Talk:Silence

Cleaned up the citations by adding links, etc. --203.206.86.215 05:15, 19 August 2005 (UTC) [[Media:Mads Rask Larsen]]once said: Everyone longs for silence but complete silence means death --Lionheart 16:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

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• Nobody understands the silence of the things.
  • George Bacovia

• Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
  • Charles Buxton

• It was after I got to Boston that I went into the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. Anybody who knows me knows this story. I am constantly telling it. Anyway, in that silent room, I heard two sounds, one high and one low. Afterward I asked the engineer in charge why, if the room was so silent, I had heard two sounds. He said, 'Describe them.' I did. He said, 'The high one was your nervous system in operation. The low one was your blood in circulation.'
  • John Cage

• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
  • Alexander Pope

• Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
  • Seneca the Elder

• It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
  • Seneca the Elder

• In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
  • Henry David Thoreau

• If you do not understand my Silence, how will you understand my Words.
  • Author Unknown