“The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.”

“The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”

H.P. Lovecraft book Dagon

“Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“We ask only to be reassured
About the noises in the cellar
And the window that should not have been open”

T.S. Eliot The Family Reunion

“Now you get to watch her leave out the window, Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

“The window-lights, myriads and myriads,
Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.”

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

“There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

“It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can see out the little window all I like.”

Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer