Silence Quote by Z.K. Kostka

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey gauze turns…

— Georges Rodenbach

“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book…

— Nikolai Gogol

“That horror which stalks in the stillness of the noonday, when the glare of an artificial sunshine lights up the motionless trees, moved all…

— Algernon Blackwood

“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory. The…

— D.H. Lawrence

“And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Now more than ever I wish I had a cup of oblivion. But there is no mercy for the people who have left the…

— Poppet

“There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours…

— Oscar Wilde

“It was the first time i had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was…

— Charles Bukowski

“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was not the sun, but the moonlight that shimmered in the garden, edging the leaves with silver and touching the outlines of the…

— Diane Setterfield

“He felt alone, prey to the tedium, to the dreariness of time, especially at the approach of twilight which, during those late-autumn days, came…

— Georges Rodenbach