#silence

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#love

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#learn

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#silence

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#silence

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#deep #silence #vengeance

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#falsehood #may #only #outraged #silence

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. ↗

— William Rose Benet

#know #merely #now #saying #silence

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#first #free #ideas #men #minds

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#got #silences #speak #you

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. ↗

— Pam Brown

#friend #how #hurts #leaves #moves