Fait-divers on silence

Every place of silence is invaded by noise. Everywhere we see the ravages of this on our thinking.

Fait-divers by Thomas Merton on silence

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of man. It is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a insoluble problem. (Thomas Merton)

Fait-divers on music and silence

People who are unable to endure silence do not deserve music.

Fait-divers on silence by Paul Goodman

"the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity"

Fait-divers on silence by Thomas Merton

There is a greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. (Thomas Merton)