„Waiting the word of the Master,Watching the Hidden Light;Listening to his orders In the very midst of the fight; Seeing His slightest signalAcross the heads of the throng;Hearing His faintest whisperAbove earth’s loudest song.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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„Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic?"Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Having disburdened his heart, the Inquisitor waits for some time to hear his prisoner speak in His turn. His silence weighs upon him. He has seen that his captive has been attentively listening to him all the time, with His eyes fixed penetratingly and softly on the face of his jailer, and evidently bent upon not replying to him. The old man longs to hear His voice, to hear Him reply; better words of bitterness and scorn than His silence. Suddenly He rises; slowly and silently approaching the Inquisitor, He bends towards him and softly kisses the bloodless, four-score and-ten-year-old lips. That is all the answer…“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.“
— James Joyce