Silence

Silence

Silence is the lack of audible sound or presence of sounds of very low intensity. By analogy, the word silence can also refer to any absence of communication, including in media other than speech. Silence is also used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. Silence also refers to no sounds uttered by anybody in a room or area. Silence is an important factor in many cultural spectacles, as in rituals.

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Famous quotes containing the word silence:

    Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    When awful darkness and silence reign
    Over the great Gromboolian plain,
    Through the long, long wintry nights;—
    Edward Lear (1812–1888)