#silence

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#began #emptiness #i #inhabiting #nothingness

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #silence #talk #life

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

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#silence #words

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

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ↗

— Jane Austen

#politics #silence #step

She was extending a hand I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#silence #communication

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

— William Rose Benet

#know #merely #now #saying #silence

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#key #listen #own #silence #your