"Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening."

--

Anna Kavan

#Silence Quotes #Listening Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.”
“How are we going to know what sounds are important before we've even heard those sounds? It's an absurd question. The only thing we can say is that we're going to base it on our past experience. In other words, modern listening doesn't inform us of anything new. It simply keeps us in the past.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In my end is my beginning”
“Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people wonâ€™t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.”

Source : Dave Ramsey (2009). “The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc
“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.”
“I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world,”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; itâ€™s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”
“People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.”

You may also like:

Anais Nin
Author
Brian Aldiss
Film writer
Djuna Barnes
Writer
Frederik Pohl
Writer
James Blish
Author
Jane Bowles
Writer
Poul Anderson
Author
Robert Silverberg
Author
Tarjei Vesaas
Poet