Quote by Haruki Murakami

“There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and…

— Annie Dillard

“It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of…

— Bram Stoker

“But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up…

— Stephen King

“The one thing that troubles me is the ringing; it persists in my ear day and night, like the tolling of a distant temple…

— Masuji Ibuse

“It was well past midnight, quiet, few people around. All noises had retreated. The night seemed to have its own resonance. At that hour,…

— Sam Thompson

“However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.”

— Sorin Cerin

“...he heard a sound that only a magnificent old bell could produce, a sound that seemed to roar forth with all the latent power…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently.”

— Susanna Clarke

“The window had gone a clear lit purple, dusk that looked like thunder. Fine clouds shifted, restless.”

— Tana French