„You know,” Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. “I see it. He is pretty hot.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„He has become a worm. That is what I am telling you.""I don't suppose it would be possible," said Henry into the silence, "to, er, step on him?“
— Cassandra Clare
„Well, this man [the T. V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, ] wanted to know why I stopped painting [the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'].... and he had said [it was] because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons.... But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don't mean to do it.“
— Marcel Duchamp
„I never said nothing…""I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!“
— Terry Pratchett
„I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.“
— Virginia Woolf
„The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.“
— Audre Lorde