Silence Quote by John Fowles

“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming... Dead silence.…

— Simona Panova

“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

“One moment of unwelcomed silence is more disheartening than a lifetime of incessant screams. And the silence deafens me.”

— Scott Hildreth

“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“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

“Not every silence breaks beautifully, like a delicate melody. There are those silences shattering into countless pieces, each shard a fragment of unspoken words,…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

“There were gaps and breaks in our conversation, silences that stretched too long, silences that were short but terrifyingly deep.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The silence of the room was shattered with a wail of pain coming from deep within me.”

— Hitomi Kanehara

“There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep. No sound from the bazaars, no arguments among the…

— Paulo Coelho

“There's nothing more frightening than dead silence; I can't stand it. When it's quiet, that's when the bad memories and the awful thoughts ring…

— C.M. Stunich

“There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the house there…

— Virginia Woolf

“Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for…

— James Rollins