Quote by Yasunari Kawabata

“Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“My mother spoke, alive again inside my brain...She spoke and I listened to her, because I was afraid if I didn't her voice would…

— Anna Quindlen

“The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled…

— Cherie Priest

“Told you to get him a bell.”

— Mora Early

“Far away, through the gash that led the way into the mountains, he heard the thick mouth of the perpetual thunder.”

— Stephen King

“The only sounds here were lazy, ponderous, gentle sounds. A bee hung low in the warm afternoon haze, and he watched it unafraid, listened…

— Michael Montoure

“Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.”

— Haruki Murakami

“There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Perhaps sound carries farther across time than across space.”

— Tom Robbins

“He thought he could hear the hum of the universe as he sat there. The airwaves of God, maybe, that kept the whole lunatic…

— Douglas Clegg

“He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard the soft…

— Anne Lamott

“Sooner or later, every last echo fades. Even the loudest thunder in the deepest valley.”

— Brian K. Vaughan