Silence Quote by Jaye Wells

“The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence...”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to be quiet.”

— Anne Rice

“Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.”

— Natalie J. Damschroder

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

— Colum McCann

“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

“In the beginning, there was silence.”

— L. Penelope

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of…

— Stephen King

“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

“It was dark, and there was light. Flashing, burning. There was warmth, and there was ice. Melting, oozing. I was flying, but I had…

— Carian Cole

“Whispers crept through the silence, disturbing the peace of an unoccupied mind.”

— Caroline Noe

“It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to feel. the…

— Peter Tieryas

“I went upstairs to my room. Momentarily I felt a sense of calm, almost acceptance. Rest beyond the river. I knew now what that…

— Margaret Laurence