on air
“Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.”
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on air
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
Jane AustenJane Austen I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath When space travel becomes as common as air travel, the future of civilization will be assured.
Elon MuskElon Musk If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
Toni MorrisonToni Morrison Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda
