Silence Quote by William Gaddis

“By being quiet, especially at night, he could stay up longer because they would forget he was there. Power. There was power in being…

— Jeff Wheeler

“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

“He waited for a time, knowing that no force could silence the crowd until it screamed out everything that had accumulated within it and…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn't beg me not to leave. He didn't say he hadn't meant it. When I…

— Jodi Meadows

“We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me…

— Denise Grover Swank

“You spend way too much time confusing silence with strength.”

— Leah Stewart

“He felt all of the tension rush out of him. Without it, he could hardly stand up.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few…

— Lindsey Leavitt

“Pressed from all corners, you often things, If I could just have eight hours of quiet. You will have that someday, but you won't…

— Nora Roberts

“There's a time to talk and a time for silence.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.”

— Charles R. Cross

“And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain…

— Jaclyn Moriarty