Silence

• "Be silent always when you doubt your sense." - Pope

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

• " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
  Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on"
  • Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

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

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

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

• "Silence is sometimes the severest criticism." - Buxton

• "There are grammatical errors even in his silence." - Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

• "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle

• "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." - Henri Nouwen