#silence

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. ↗

— Confucius

#friend #never #silence #true #true friend

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#lambs #really #silence #smart

Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence. ↗

— John Haynes

#break #deny #efforts #made #may

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ↗

— Henry Miller

#chaos #henry-miller #music #reality #reality-of-life

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#certain #could #effectively #eloquent #great

The most boring thing in the world? Silence. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#boring thing #most #silence #thing #world

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#silence #speech #variously

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. ↗

— Donald Justice

#ease #harm #land #leads #others

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#book #educated #imagining #music #read

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence. ↗

— Andre Kostelanetz

#greatest #me #silence #sound #sounds