Silence Quotes by Nicole Krauss

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

— Nicole Krauss

“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard.”

— Nicole Krauss

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter…

— Nicole Krauss

“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really…

— Nicole Krauss

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a…

— Nicole Krauss

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How…

— Nicole Krauss

We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying…

— Nicole Krauss

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the…

— Nicole Krauss

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch…

— Nicole Krauss

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come…

— Nicole Krauss

“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really…

— Nicole Krauss