“Sometimes there’s this fear of stopping, like, is it okay to just go hang out in the desert for a year with my tools and my dog? Is that alright? Will I lose my relevance?”— iO Tillett Wright, freundevonfreunden.com
“When I was 11, I had an episode in my life. I saw my cousin shoot his wife. It wasn’t traumatic…but the shock value. I went back into the apartment to collect some things with my dad, because my cousin was in jail. The bed was all bloody. It was there where she had landed after the bullet. She got a…”— Richard Ramirez, evilminds.tumblr.com
“Contrary to popular belief, peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head.”— Daniel A. Gross, nautil.us
“Kirste found that two hours of silence per day prompted cell development in the hippocampus, the brain region related to the formation of memory, involving the senses.”— Daniel A. Gross, nautil.us
“I find myself walking softly on the right undergrowth beneath the trees, not wanting to crack a twig, to crush or disturb anything in the least--for there is such a sense of stillness and peace that the wrong sort of movement, even one's very presence, might be fest as an intrusion, and, so to speak…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, en.wikiquote.org
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I sit down and I close my eyes and I'm alive, really alive. Maybe more alive then I've been in a long time. More alive than I was before there was death in my life. It's a good feeling; knowing that death killed a part of me but brought life to another. There is a balance to it all and today I didn'…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com