#silence

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#bright #brothers #cold #earth #eternal

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#fashion #great #great things #silence #themselves

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#ground #now #silence #speak #surrender

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

— Pam Brown

#friend #how #hurts #leaves #moves

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#mutism #quiet #silence #life

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth. ↗

— Gary Busey

#earth #i #live #living #lot

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

— Samuel Butler

#same #silence #tact #thing

Silence is more eloquent than words. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#more #silence #than #words

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence