Day Quote by Joan Allen

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the…

— Anonymous

My dad lost his hearing in the last 18 months of his life, and as a result, I witnessed first-hand the effect that this…

— Rachel Shenton

Hearing something that absolutely kills you inside and having to act like youre fine...

— Anonymous

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV…

— Cornelia Parker

When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic.

— Amanda Lepore

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

— Steven Millhauser

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

— Annie Dillard

I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

— Billy Crystal

“Contrary to what TV and movies have told you, it’s nearly impossible to have a hallucination that you can both see and hear—the mentally…

— David Wong

When I was two,I had schizophrenia.

— Nishan Singh

Soft Sounds' was about disassociating to preserve my mental health.

— Michelle Zauner