Silence Quote by Geoff Ryman

“In the beginning, there was silence.”

— L. Penelope

“I ache for silence - to step back into that stillness which birthed us all. To dissolve into No-thingness and discover what remains.”

— Martin Cosgrove

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“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

“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It seemed in life, whenever you were wanted, it was for some discussion or explanation. Silence was just something to be filled.”

— Jessie Atkin

“Silence meant nothing was about to explode… until it did.”

— Naiyem Chowdhury Rony

“The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.”

— Laini Taylor

“The whole place seemed wrapped in isolated autumn silence.”

— Phoebe Stone

“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

“It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..”

— Sanhita Baruah

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

— Nicole Krauss