Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Variant: Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Variant: Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
“Everything is a bit of darkness, even light itself.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Todo es un poco de oscuridad, hasta la misma luz.
Voces (1943)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Chapter 7, "The Great Treasure" (Arha)
John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
Caravan of Fools (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
“I worked carefully in the darkness and the silence.”
François-Eudes Chanfrault (1974–2016) Composer and musician
CinemaFantastique.net interview (October 2, 2008)
“While the world sleeps, darkness and silence are awake.”
Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator
“A Sleepday,” p. 53
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”
“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness:
But with poverty everything becomes frightful.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté :
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté.
Satire 8, l. 209
Satires (1716)
“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y todo, es silencio.
Voces (1943)
“The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”
Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist