Silent Era

Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or era:

“I love order. It’s my dream. A world where all would be silent and still and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)