Quote by Katja Millay

“The loud sounds make it impossible to hear the soft ones, and the soft sounds are the ones you have to be afraid of.”

— Katja Millay

“Fear makes you silent when you need to be loud and loud when you need silence.”

— Elizabeth Vaughan

“I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...”

— George Prochnik

“Sometimes thoughts, fears, or other people get too loud and we can’t hear ourselves.”

— Demi Lovato

“People don’t like when they can’t figure you out. When you’re too quiet. It scares them.”

— Lisa Henry

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

— John Cage

It's dangerous to generalise about sound because many of its effects work through association. These can be universal: we all instinctively associate any sudden,…

— Julian Treasure

“When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“It is a monstrous noise -silence”

— Emily Curtis

“live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things…

— Gary Paulsen

“Sometimes, silence become louder than our very fears.”

— Mladen Đorđević

“I feel that noise makes it harder to hear the internal dialogue between the owner and his or her belongings.”

— Marie Kondō