“a waiting, stagnant darkness, thick and silent as the ocean deeps”

“Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“Behind of the words a silent ocean of desires
and a coiled knowledge lies in wait,
listen a restless voice in our heart endlessly urging us onward to break the limits of fear and to embrace of our longing.”

alexis karpouzos

“O'er yonder eastern hill the twilight pale
Walks forth from darkness; and the God of day,
With bright Astraea seated by his side,
Waits yet to leave the ocean.”

Mark Akenside (1721–1770) English poet and physician

“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”

James Cameron (1954) Canadian film director

“It’s very nearly 1989 but it’s midnight in the Dark Ages just the thickness of a book away, the thickness of a skull away; just the turn of a page away.”

Iain Banks (1954–2013) Scottish writer

“Nobody knows what dark matter is. It is another deep mystery waiting to be explored. We know only that it is there, and that it weighs more than the stuff that we can see.”

Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician

“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see,
So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion,
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.

As still to the star of its worship, though clouded,
The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea,
So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded,
The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Why We Can't Wait