Silence Quote by Henning Mankell

“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The…

— Hannah Harrington

“I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and…

— Keary Taylor

“Among the most ghastly sounds a man can hear is the sound of a voice in what he thought was an empty house.”

— Matthew M. Bartlett

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

— Yôko Ogawa

“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

“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.”

— Ruth Emmie Lang

“When sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.”

— Markus Peterson

“When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.”

— Shirley Jackson

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

— Cory Basil

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

— Colum McCann