#silence

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#funny #silence #talking #funny

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#much #nothing #silence #strengthens

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fall #happened #out #over #presently

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. ↗

— Frank R. Wolf

#america #awake #backs #body #boldness

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#alone #also #away #country #day

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#depends #power #rapist #silence #women

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#distracting #me #more #silence #solitude

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#daily #disrupted #duties #either #getting