Depth Quote by Maud Hart Lovelace

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

— Julius Lester

“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...”

— Yôko Ogawa

The silence of the room is as important as the music.

— John Waite

In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you…

— Amy Waldman

But the silence spoke volumes.

— Haruki Murakami

“Why was it that silence sometimes felt like a physical thing with a weight of its own?”

— Mary Balogh

“A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.”

— Patrick McGrath

“Silence is a space of “becoming,” a span between commotion and interior stillness, a canvas that reveals the outlines of our memories and our…

— Erik Pevernagie

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

— Rachel Simon

“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

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there…

— Annie Dillard

Silence can be heard the loudest, while standing all alone in a crowded room.

— Anne Dawn