SILENCE in Classic Quotes

1  Their faces grew haunted with silence.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

2  Montag cried out in the silence and turned away.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

3  But there was something else in the silence that he heard.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

4  Montag identified himself and was met with a lengthy silence.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

5  Montag moved toward this special silence that was concerned with all of the world.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  Montag watched the great dust settle and the great silence move down upon their world.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

7  The men were making too much noise, laughing, joking, to cover her terrible accusing silence below.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  It carried its silence with it, so you could feel the silence building up a pressure behind you all across town.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

9  He could feel the firehouse full of glitter and shine and silence, of brass colors, the colors of coins, of gold, of silver.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

10  The perspiration gathered with the silence and the subaudible trembling around and about and in the women who were burning with tension.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

11  Silence fell down in the sifting dust, and all the leisure they might need to look around, to gather the reality of this day into their senses.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

12  They walked the rest of the way in silence, hers thoughtful, his a kind of clenching and uncomfortable silence in which he shot her accusing glances.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

13  It was half across the lawn, coming from the shadows, moving with such drifting ease that it was like a single solid cloud of black-gray smoke blown at him in silence.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

14  A few house lights were going on again down the street, whether from the incidents just passed, or because of the abnormal silence following the fight, Montag did not know.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

15  He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

16  There was a silence gathered all about that fire and the silence was in the men's faces, and time was there, time enough to sit by this rusting track under the trees, and look at the world and turn it over with the eyes, as if it were held to the center of the bonfire, a piece of steel these men were all shaping.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

17  Its kennel was empty and the firehouse stood all about in plaster silence and the orange Salamander slept with its kerosene in its belly and the fire throwers crossed upon its flanks and Montag came in through the silence and touched the brass pole and slid up in the dark air, looking back at the deserted kennel, his heart beating, pausing, beating.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand