"I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun."

Silence, Communication, Loss, Waiting

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"I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun."

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"The most profound statements are often said in silence."

Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist

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"Silence is not empty, it is full of answers."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Silence, Isolation, Stillness, Absence

"The most boring thing in the world? Silence."

Justin Timberlake, American Musician

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"Silence is so accurate."

Mark Rothko, American Artist

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"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."

Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist

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"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Silence, Words

"Only silence perfects silence."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

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"Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Silence, Communication, Difficulty, Life

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"Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on."

Hope

"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."

Relationship

"It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."

Psychology

"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."

Emotion

"When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly."

Time

"It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."

Reality

"But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who knows? Maybe that was 'despair.' What Turgenev called 'disillusionment.' Or Dostoyevsky, 'hell.' Or Somerset Maugham, 'reality.' Whatever the label, I figured it was me."

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"The most profound statements are often said in silence."

"Silence is not empty, it is full of answers."

"It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel."

"The most boring thing in the world? Silence."

"Silence is so accurate."

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."

"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."

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"Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around."

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"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."

"Passion can't sustain itselfforever."

"Count your blessings."

"Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on."

"It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."

"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."

"When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly."

"It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."