#silence

Silence is refreshment for the soul. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#silence #soul

Silence is best. ↗

— John Hewson

#silence

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. ↗

— Artur Schnabel

#piano #silence #art

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ↗

— Josh Billings

#refute #silence

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

#children #could #elders #every #fate

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#born #deep #hearts #joy #silence

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. ↗

— William Drummond

#bridle #cometh #destroy #guard #lest

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. ↗

— William Drummond

#child #everything #expresses #loudly #love

I love silence. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#i love #love #silence

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever