It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard.
~ Thomas Merton
Elsewhere, this is 4a1505. — slipbox
Silence →
The silence that is in the starry sky.
~ William Wordsworth
Elsewhere, this is 4a1484. — slipbox
Lectures →
The muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.
~ Charles Lamb
Elsewhere, this is 4a1479. — slipbox
The quiet ones →
Of the ones who have nothing to say, the quiet ones are the most pleasant.
~ Michel ‘Coluche’ Colucci
Elsewhere, this is 4a1478. — slipbox
Silence →
The path to all great things passes through silence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Elsewhere, this is 4a1355. — slipbox
Silence →
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
~ Mark Twain
Elsewhere, this is 4a1309. — slipbox
Contentment →
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~ Ansel Adams
Elsewhere, this is 4a1299. — slipbox
Incompleteness →
True genius shudders at incompleteness—and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Elsewhere, this is 4a1259. — slipbox
Silence →
If there was a little more silence, if we all kept quiet… maybe we could understand something.
~ Federico Fellini
Elsewhere, this is 4a1239. — slipbox