Silence Quote by Terry Pratchett

“The sound of silence carried by the wind.”

— Melissa Alberto

“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a…

— Sylvia Plath

“We who live in the civilized world are accustomed to a background roar that never goes away. It is the pounding of our machinery…

— Pirate Lanford

“The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting…

— John Fowles

“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

“You are out of the world’s chatter, its corridor echoes, its muttering. Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the…

— Frédéric Gros

The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion…

— Edward Abbey

“Silence has gathered around me like a thick, viscous water filling in a muddy footprint. Early evening, swollen sky like an eye that”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“A groundswell of silence moved between us. Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“A riverless silence made the air heavy.”

— Steven Ramirez

“Then we lapse into silence. It's these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.”

— Matthew Norman

The silence was an intense roar.

— Jack Kerouac