Silence Quote by Ian Fleming

“She drove me home in silence. Back then, there was always silence. I couldn't speak up, I realize now, because protest requires hope.”

— Deborah Jackson Taffa

“I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.”

— Haruki Murakami

“There was silence. No one looked at me. People pretended to be absorbed in their phones. One writer didn’t even have a phone, so…

— Mindy Kaling

“The silence between the lines is where the people speak their true intent.”

— Geta Anton

“The telephone was not yet at that date as commonly in use as it is today. And yet habit requires so short a time…

— Marcel Proust

“I am angry at this moment, angry at both of them for electing to walk about hurt and silent rather than having it all…

— P. Carey Reid

“There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.”

— Mark Capell

“Everywhere were metastasizing telephone lines, riots of electric wires, laundry hanging from prefabricated apartment windows like tears from idiot eyes.”

— Barry Eisler

“Silence creates its own violence.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“People weakened their hands by feeling they had to fill uncomfortable silences.”

— Brad Thor

“I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.”

— Suzanne Collins

“There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali