Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
To be silent is to be passive.
I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.