Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Family, Silence, Unhappy

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

• Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Art, Thinking

• Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Silence

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Pain, Healing

  "The Powerbook". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2000.

• It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Silence, Needs, Speak

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