#silences

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#between #conversations #counts #friends #make

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#feeling #paltry #separates #silences #unites

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#better man #butterflies #ever #i #man

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#love #meaning #meaning of #more #silences

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. ↗

— Mary Webb

#her #music #nature #never #over

He’s an indulgent sort of man…… With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#charm #fierce-tongue #friendship-and-love #jamie-weise #love

For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies. ↗

— Sue Miller

#lies #secrets #silences #sue-miller #while-i-was-gone

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#bring #duo #employed #fore #movements

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#comfortable #dead #feel #fill #got

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#got #silences #speak #you