“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Source: Faithless
“Silence is like starvation.”
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
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“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Ode. Autmn http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_5.htm#195b, st. 1 (1827). <br class="br">1820s
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Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor
Interview Charlie Rose (27 September 2000)
“I love your silences, they are like mine.”
Anaïs Nin book Under a Glass Bell
"Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Source: Under a Glass Bell (1944)
Context: I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
“And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
To an Insect; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
"Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett" https://archive.vogue.com/article/1969/12/nobel-prize-winner-1969-samuel-beckett-talks-about-beckett, Vogue Magazine, 1969
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Ira Levinson, Chapter 17 Ira, p. 222-223
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time