Art form Quote by Gertrude Bell

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

— Oscar Wilde

When one is silent, those around speak even more.

— Melina Marchetta

A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry,…

— May Sarton

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but…

— William Hazlitt

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their…

— Karl Rahner

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a…

— Ivan Illich

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

— Mitch Albom

Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works.…

— Laurence Sterne

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them…

— Heinrich Heine

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible…

— Sue Grafton