Time Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“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

“That after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness... That's all, it took him an hour to…

— William Gaddis

“He whispered, breaking the silence because he could no longer bear it, daring to make a noise because a whisper was better than a…

— Christopher Golden

“He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of…

— Ellery Queen

“The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore.”

— Samantha Schutz

“I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.”

— Truth Devour

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

— Yôko Ogawa

“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

“The pair stood in long silence. Another thing Eilidh missed. Humans rushed everywhere, filled every moment with noise. They lacked the discipline of quiet.”

— India Drummond

“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Mary Balogh

“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy…

— Deb Caletti