#silence

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#else #matters #nothing #nothing matters #silence

To silence criticism is to silence freedom. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#freedom #silence

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#effects #ideological #more #most #need

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#man #ready #recall #repeat #silence

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eternity #shallow #silence #speech #time

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#severest #silence #sometimes

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. ↗

— George Washington Cable

#darkened #decay #entered #gigantic #hung

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies. ↗

— Benjamin Carson

#along #bullies #courageous #enough #everybody

...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands... ↗

— John Geddes

#hands #love #relationships #silence #spirit

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far