Carl Sagan – Diagram of all Space and Time (1985)

There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence

— Alexander Dumas

The long silences need to be loved,
— Franz Wright, Home Remedy from God’s Silence: Poems (via violentwavesofemotion)

“My body was an ache, a silence.
  It could not affirm how long it had waited for you.”
– Stephen Dunn, The Waiting from New and Selected Poems