“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”

“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

“When we never see who we are, never hear what we think about things, what we are doing as a group or what we are doing individually, then it is as if we are never there in the first place. Silence = Nonexistence.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

“And His that gentle voice we hear,
Soft as the breath of even.”

Harriet Auber (1773–1862) British poet, hymnwriter

“The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”

Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) German historian and philosopher

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

“Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear;
They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings,
Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.”

Thomas Gray The Bard

“We are not going to continue until we hear the fucking roof rattle.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter