Silence Quote by Flann O'Brien

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

— Yôko Ogawa

“In the beginning, there was silence.”

— L. Penelope

“The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.”

— Chaim Potok

“Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.”

— Cory Basil

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. … The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters a room.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said.”

— Colum McCann

“I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.”

— Truth Devour

“It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”

— Anna Kavan

“The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence...”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.”

— G.K. Chesterton