Quote by Jean-Claude Izzo

“Somewhere a cicada conversed irritably with the night, then fell silent.”

— Michael Prescott

“Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.”

— Milton Steinberg

“People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.”

— Philip Pullman

“They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of…

— Jennifer Brown

“My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh…

— Christine Fonseca

“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

“I thought at the time that it was noble to bear the ills one had silently. But not so silently that others didn't know…

— Maya Angelou

“Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.”

— D. H. Lawrence