#silence

Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.

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— Jarod Kintz

#silence #snow #art

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#silence #sound #music

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#storytelling #nature

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#centre #contentment #nature #peace #peace-of-mind

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#silence #truth #honesty

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence. ↗

— Richard Yates

#silence #improvement

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#psychology #remaining-silent #reticence #silence #gossip

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#enquiry #silence #solitude #solitude

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#like #nothingness #silence #stain #unnecessary

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#go #i #i am #know #must