„These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.“

— Chuck Palahniuk

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„I don't wanna be the girl who has to fill the silence;The quiet scares me 'cause it screams the truth.“
— Pink (singer)
„We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks…“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.“
— Stephen King