Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Silence is often the truest wisdom.
If you have words stronger than silence, speak. If you do not have them, then remain silent.
What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
The rest is silence.
It is a brief refusal when the wise man meets a request with silence.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Silence is the great revelation.
In time of war the laws are silent.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Great souls endure in silence.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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