Silentio Quotes

#1. Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei. ("It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of God.")

Thomas Merton

#2. Treat everyone how you want to be treated.

T. Mills

#3. We can contain such secret misery, perversion.

Ben Marcus

#4. You're a good kid, darlin'. A good, sweet kid. Promise me you'll stay that way, yeah? No matter what you see, no matter what sort of fucked up shit happens to you. Don't let this life turn you bitter.
- Deuce to Eva (Undeniable)

Madeline Sheehan

#5. He was a small part of summer,
he was summer's tongue.

Matthew Rohrer

#6. Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks.
But they should. They should.

Joanna Russ

#7. Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.

Sting

#8. President Obama held a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. In response, Republicans said, 'It's even worse than we thought. He's a Jewish Muslim.'

Conan O'Brien

#9. Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.

Izumi Shikibu

#10. Why grace was disparaged and redemption faced judgment? Why vice was rewarded and virtue punished?

Nandini Sahu

#11. What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

Paul Auster

#12. I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

Joan Didion

#13. And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#14. Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

Johanna De Silentio

#15. Success is the daughter of perseverance.

Matshona Dhliwayo