The Silence Quotes

“It was always at the edges of our perception. Power out, technology slipping away, one aspect, then another. We've seen it happening repeatedly, this country and elsewhere, storms and wildfires and evacuations, typhoons, drought, dense fog, foul air. Landslides, tsunamis, disappearing rivers, houses collapsing, entire buildings crumbling, skies blotted out by pollution. I'm sorry and I'll try to shut up. But remaining fresh in every memory, virus, plague, the march through airport terminals, the face masks, the city streets emptied out.”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“Parece que se han vaciado todas las pantallas del mundo. ¿Qué nos queda por ver, por oír, por sentir? ¿Acaso hay un grupo selecto de personas provistas de una especie de teléfono implantado en el cuerpo?”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“Sea lo que sea lo que está pasando, se ha cargado nuestra tecnología. La palabra misma ya me parece anticuada, perdida en el espacio.”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“Piensa en los muchos millones de pantallas vacías. Intenta imaginarte los teléfonos desactivados. ¿Qué pasa con la gente que vive dentro de sus teléfonos?”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“Sólo quiero llegar a casa y mirar una pared vacía.”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“There is almost nothing left of nowhere.”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“What happens to people who live inside their phones?”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“I can tell you this. Whatever is going on, it has crushed our technology. The word itself seems outdated to me, lost in space. Where is the leap of authority to our secure devices, our encryption capacities, our tweets, trolls and bots. Is everything in the datasphere subject to distortion and theft? And do we simply have to sit here and mourn our fate?”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

“look in the mirror and I don’t know who I’m looking at,” he said. “The face looking back at me doesn’t seem to be mine. But then again why should it? Is the mirror a truly reflective surface? And is this the face that other people see? Or is it something or someone that I invent? Does the medication I’m taking release this second self?”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence