„I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you.“

— Pablo Neruda
„It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?“
— Sylvia Plath
„Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?“
— Oprah Winfrey
„This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you“
— Chuck Palahniuk