Opening-lines Quote by Paul Auster

“I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.”

— John Green

“It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I had always wondered what it felt like to die.”

— Pressfield, Steven

“I mean I don’t want to die but I sure would appreciate the quiet.”

— Elisabeth Hewer

“Noisy. Quiet places are the noisiest.”

— Heidi Ayarbe

“sometimes death just comes to a place and settles for a while.”

— Amy Cross

“I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.”

— Natalie Standiford

“It looked like precisely the sort of place where a living body might go if it wanted to become a dead one.”

— William Ritter

“And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?”

— Franz Wright

“Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.”

— John Clare

“I am looking into a silent world.”

— J.G. Ballard

“Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.”

— Bob Hicok