Nicole Krauss Quotes About Silence
-
Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."
→ -
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.
→ -
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.
→ -
There's no match for the silence of GOD.
→ -
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.
→ -
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.
→ -
He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.
→ -
We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.
→
Related Authors
-
Zadie Smith Novelist -
Philip Roth Novelist -
Jennifer Egan Novelist -
Joshua Ferris Author -
Daniel Alarcon Author -
Siri Hustvedt Novelist -
Jonathan Franzen Novelist -
Dave Eggers Writer -
Jonathan Safran Foer Writer -
Vendela Vida Novelist -
ZZ Packer Author -
Karen Russell Novelist -
Joshua Foer Journalist -
Nathan Englander Short story writer -
Michael Chabon Author -
Jeffrey Eugenides Novelist -
Tea Obreht Novelist -
Franklin Foer Journalist -
Jhumpa Lahiri Author -
Rivka Galchen Writer