Silence Quote by David Foster Wallace

“...a complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.”

— Umberto Eco

“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of the end…

— Flann O'Brien

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

— Mitch Albom

“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like…

— Anne Spollen

“Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.”

— Jennifer Perry

“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...”

— Yôko Ogawa

“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.”

— Alan Moore

“A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.”

— Patrick McGrath

“Silence has gathered around me like a thick, viscous water filling in a muddy footprint. Early evening, swollen sky like an eye that”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Noise creates dusty air in the mind!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Silence does not need to be praised, as it will disturb it or add unnecessary noise.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo