Silence Quote by Gwen Calvo

“He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into…

— R. W. Patterson

“...he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the…

— Tash Aw

“Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge of something…

— Katherine Ewell

“And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of…

— Ellie Wiesel

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

— Nicole Krauss

“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's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Words aren’t meant to be kept inside, you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“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

“We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Not every silence breaks beautifully, like a delicate melody. There are those silences shattering into countless pieces, each shard a fragment of unspoken words,…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

“There was thin, reverberating silence; the sort of delicately plucked note that isn’t heard, but felt in the heart.”

— Kirsty Eagar