Audience Quote by Mary Renault

“Silence can bring with it a vacancy that in its turn craves the distraction of the human voice or the obscuring impact created...by music.…

— Juliet Nicolson

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

— Richard Jackson

But the silence spoke volumes.

— Haruki Murakami

In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

— Ben Lee

Silence reveals what's inside of you rather than with a lip that utter a thousand stanzas.

— Rain3031

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

— Colum McCann

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of…

— St. Catherine of Siena

“In sound’s absence, silence echoes.”

— Margaret Weis

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

— Maureen Dowd

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

— Pascal Mercier

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

— Napoleon Bonaparte