
— Heinrich Heine German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797 - 1856
Lyrical Intermezzo, 57; in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 73
All Fall Down
Heavy Rotation (2008)
— Heinrich Heine German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797 - 1856
Lyrical Intermezzo, 57; in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 73
„Every government, our own included, fights with propaganda as deadly as poison gas.“
— Everett Dean Martin 1880 - 1941
Zdroj: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 45
„Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.“
— Karen Marie Moning author 1964
Zdroj: Shadowfever
„When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.“
— Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987
Comprehension
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
„The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.“
— Edgar Lee Masters, kniha Spoon River Anthology
Zdroj: Spoon River Anthology
„Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, kniha Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Zdroj: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— Ambrose Bierce American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist 1842 - 1914
Zdroj: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
„When you have something to say, silence is a lie.“
— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
— Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Zdroj: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
— Karen Blixen, kniha Last Tales
"The Blank Page"
Last Tales (1957)
Kontext: Why, you are to become a story teller, and I shall give you the reasons! Hear then: Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. Whether a small snotty lass understands it or not.
„There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.“
— Benedict of Nursia, kniha Rule of Saint Benedict
Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15
— Pope Leo X, Exsurge Domine
Exsurge Domine (1520)
Kontext: Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.
„You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.“
— Poppy Z. Brite Novelist, short story writer, food writer 1967
Zdroj: Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
„Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.“
— D.H. Lawrence, kniha Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
„Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words“
— William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616
„One word from you shall silence me forever.“
— Jane Austen, kniha Pride and Prejudice
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
„Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness.“
— Giannina Braschi Puerto Rican writer 1953
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
„to fashion silence into words“
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps American author, intellectual and feminist 1844 - 1911
From The Poet and the Poem in Songs of the Silent World, Houghton & Grifffin, Boston, USA 1884 kindle ebook ASIN B004TPPDY0