Bad dream Quote by John Boyne

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds…

— Dean Koontz

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

— Anna Kavan

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

— Pascal Mercier

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He…

— James Joyce

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common…

— Roberto Bolano

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I…

— Nick Flynn

“How quiet it is,' Danny said, digging in his knapsack for the canteen full of water he had brought. 'You don’t realize how scary…

— Jay Williams

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air…

— H. G. Wells

“Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to…

— Cormac McCarthy