„Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence… Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.“

— Franz Kafka

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„No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.“
— Karen Blixen
„all which isn't singing is mere talking…and all talking's to oneself alonebut the very song of(as mountainsfeel and lovers)singing is silence“
— E.E. Cummings
„Worse eventhan your maddeningsong, your silence." -“
— Sylvia Plath
„Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.“
— Sylvia Plath