“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

“The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.”

“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”

“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”

“Finally, she broke her silence and spelled it out to Dr. Burkley. Kneeling, John Kennedy's personal physician indicated her ghastly skirt with a trembling hand. "Another dress?", he suggested diffidently.
"No", she whispered fiercely, "Let them see the horror."”

“If I had a Luger, I thought, I could drill the bastards. I leaned on one elbow and pointed a finger at the window, seeing what kind of shot I would get. Perfect. There was just enough light in the street for a good silhouette. I knew it would happen quickly, I’d have no choice: just pull the trigger and go deaf from the terrible noise, a frenzy of screaming and scratching followed by a ghastly thump of a body knocked back and down to the sidewalk.”

“Let music make less terrible
The silence of the dead;
I care not, so my spirit last
Long after life has fled.”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.”

“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”