Layers Quote by Donna Tartt

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

— Yôko Ogawa

“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he…

— William Faulkner

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence,…

— Jane Hirshfield

“You don't need to fill the silence— sometimes, silence is the deepest conversation.”

— Sean DeLaney

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within..

— Jacques Mayol

“Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence.”

— M.A. George

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

— Agnes de Mille

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

— Ezra Pound

Behind all creation is silence. Silence is the essential condition, the vital ingredient for all creation and all that is created. It is a…

— Dr BK Satyanarayan

“Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.”

— Mark Twain

“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a…

— Sylvia Plath