#silence

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

— Pam Brown

#friend #how #hurts #leaves #moves

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#same #silence #tact #thing

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#bar #bored #customers #denied #got

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#every #idle #must #silence #word

Silence is the wit of fools. ↗

— Anatole France

#silence #wit

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ↗

— Mark Stevens

#best #paintings #prompts #random #reflection

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contemporary #important #important matters #indicated #intellectual

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Great souls suffer in silence. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#great souls #silence #souls #suffer

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#part #silence #story #tell #wanted