--- title: "1 Silence Fear Quotes By Gabriel Josipovici" description: "1 Silence Fear quotes by Gabriel Josipovici. Plus more from Gabriel Josipovici and more Silence Fear sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/gabriel-josipovici-77486_books_i-agree-with-proust-in-this-he-says-that_1329803.jpg" --- > [“I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-josipovici/i-agree-with-proust-in-this-he-says-that-books-create-their-own/) Gabriel Josipovici [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/gabriel-josipovici-77486_books_i-agree-with-proust-in-this-he-says-that_1329803.jpg) ## More by Gabriel Josipovici > [“I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-josipovici/i-agree-with-proust-in-this-he-says-that-books-create-their-own/) Gabriel Josipovici > [“I do not know where this mania for understanding oneself has come from, he said, but it clearly exerts a powerful hold on people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-josipovici/i-do-not-know-where-this-mania-for-understanding-oneself-has-come/) Gabriel Josipovici > [The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-josipovici/the-worst-way-to-read-he-said-is-with-the-thought-that-you-do-not/) Gabriel Josipovici ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silence-fear/gabriel-josipovici/#itemlist", "name": "1 Silence Fear Quotes By Gabriel Josipovici", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out... the fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned... 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