#silences

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

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

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