#silent

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#anger #ashamed #contempt #hate #hearts

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#becoming #before #gore #i #life

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dead #god #god is dead #him #impossible

A yawn is a silent shout. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#silent #yawn

Laws are silent in time of war. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#silent #time #war

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#especially #honest #humanity #i #i can

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#the-silent-blade #beauty

What is reading, but silent conversation. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#reading #silent

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#i #ringing #silent #skull