#silence

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. ↗

— Laura Linney

#entertainment industry #industry #silence #terrified

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ↗

— Charles Simic

#behind #equal #experience #never #orphan

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#correction #eye #friend #kills #know

It is tact that is golden, not silence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#silence #tact

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed. ↗

— Sue Miller

#relationships #silence #sue-miller #while-i-was-gone #anger

Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#fear #frustration #healing #loneliness #sadness

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn’t remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts. ↗

— Michelle Sagara West

#death #guilt #loss #silence #age

What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#shouting #silence #soul #anger

She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#loneliness #silence #solitary #stars #beauty

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to. ↗

— Rachel Simon

#listened #listening #love #rachel-simon #silence