Drinking Quote by Sherman Alexie

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

— Colum McCann

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

— Anonymous

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It…

— Philip Gibbs

The silence was an intense roar.

— Jack Kerouac

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we…

— Stephen King

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

— Anna Kavan

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the…

— Benedict Wong

“The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is…

— Washington Irving

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

— Muriel Spark

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

— John Clare

All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan