I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the…

“Last night, I spoke at one of the Circle Meetings of the Baptist Church. Afterward, a Kenyan friend, Wangari Waigwa-Stone, and I spoke about…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

— Samuel Beckett

“There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of learning but…

— Umberto Eco

“Then the dog began to moan in old Salamano’s room, and through the sleep-bound house the little plaintive sound rose slowly, like a flower…

— Albert Camus

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness…

— Anonymous

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them…

— Loren Eiseley

“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like the Bolognan…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead of good.…

— Assassins creed

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Whenever I see the alcove of a tastefully built Japanese room, I marvel at our comprehension of the secrets of shadows, our sensitive use…

— Junichiro Tanizaki

“silence was darkness, and that naming shone a light.”

— Michael Chabon

“I ask you again / You who watch / How can there ever be any ending but this? First silence / Then darkness.”

— Ben Power

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

— Helen Keller

“And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly. "Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply…

— Mary Balogh

“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary,…

— Wendell Berry