The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be…

“There was an eerie quiet about last night, like death sleeping on the beach of Lake Erie. I woke up with sand in my…

— Jarod Kintz

“When those who lived through the epidemic tried to describe it, they talked about the sudden eerie quiet.”

— Jeanette Keith

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

— Tahar Djaout

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation,…

— Chenjerai Hove

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

— Isabel Allende

“Whether my mortality caught me at twenty-eight or ninety-three, I made the choice to die content, slipped into the nothingness, my atoms becoming the…

— Caitlin Doughty

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black…

— Anne Sexton

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary…

— Edmond Jabes

[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived…

— Audre Lorde

The gunshot holds no fear!

— Dakota Fanning

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being…

— Alex Garland

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not…

— Ger Duany

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing.…

— Jarreth J. Merz

I don't care if I end up in jail or Guantánamo or whatever, kicked out of a plane with two gunshots in the face.…

— Edward Snowden