Stepping into the silence: Walking over the abyss of fear
Who better to describe the silence, the void, than poets, philosophers, song writers and playwrights?
'I can’t take the noise here, my soul shudders at every sound, I shudder all over, but I can’t go off by myself, I’d be terrified to be alone in silence.'
The Cherry Orchard, In The Complete Plays: Anton Chekov, translated and edited by Laurence Senelick. New York: W. W, Norton, 2006, Anton Chekhov
'I was frightened upon finding myself amid nothingness, a nothing myself. I felt like suffocating, thinking and feeling that everything is nothing, solid nothing.'
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, Zihaldone: A Selection,
Translated by Edward MacCurdy, New York: Garden City Publishing, 1942
'A lunatic is a man who sees an abyss and falls into it.'
Honore De Balzac, French novelist and playwright
'Experience teaches that silence terrifies people the most.'
Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone, New York: Columbia, 1965
Who better to describe the silence, the void, than poets, philosophers, song writers and playwrights?
'I can’t take the noise here, my soul shudders at every sound, I shudder all over, but I can’t go off by myself, I’d be terrified to be alone in silence.'
The Cherry Orchard, In The Complete Plays: Anton Chekov, translated and edited by Laurence Senelick. New York: W. W, Norton, 2006, Anton Chekhov
'I was frightened upon finding myself amid nothingness, a nothing myself. I felt like suffocating, thinking and feeling that everything is nothing, solid nothing.'
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, Zihaldone: A Selection,
Translated by Edward MacCurdy, New York: Garden City Publishing, 1942
'A lunatic is a man who sees an abyss and falls into it.'
Honore De Balzac, French novelist and playwright
'Experience teaches that silence terrifies people the most.'
Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone, New York: Columbia, 1965
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