#silence

[gennsoup]

Worse Even than your maddening Song, your silence.

Sylvia Plath, Lorelei

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

[lauramakabresku]

God's grace wanders at night among the fields of the soul

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written in February 1950

[feral-ballad]

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Hasan Javadi & Susan Sallée, from Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "Let us believe in the beginning of a cold season"

[Text ID: "I am naked, naked, naked / naked like the moments of silence / between the phrases of love"]

[free-my-mindd]

Distance, silence, peace.

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

[fluffygif]

Pure rain sounds

[inevitablesblog]

Quiero sentarme en la orilla de la playa a pensar en nada.

[derangedrhythms]

It seemed more honest to remain silent.

Ingeborg Bachmann, quoted by R. Kolewe in 'Afterletters: From an essay on desire'

[itsclassicmee]

“I'm a master of speaking silently, all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence”.

–Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit.

[lauramakabresku]

Into great silence

[tamsoj]

The worst that can happen often happens in silence. It is not the explosion, but the aftermath, when you see through the smoke and ash, that you know how much you have lost.

Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

[mournfulroses]

This great terrible silence was my love.

Robert Desnos, from Essential Poems & Writings; "Ebony Life,"

[starlonga]

[flowerytale]

Marianne Fritz, from The Weight of Things Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters Clarice Lispector, from The Passion According to G.H. Stevie Smith, from Infelice

The Tall Windows & Interior by Vilhelm Hammershøi Figures Walking up a Monumental Staircase (detail) by Hubert Robert Young Woman with Her Hand over Her Mouth by Edgar Degas