“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”

“There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always.
If the music dies down there is a silence.
Almost the same as the movement of music.
To know silence perfectly is to know music.”

“The dark and distant drumming
The pounding of the hooves
The silence of everything that moves
Late at night you'll see them
decked out in shiny jewels
the coming of the caravan of fools”

“These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”

“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”

“Fuckin' A… hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.”

“The silence was an intense roar.”

“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.”

“When the night-wind bewaileth the fall of the year,
And sweeps from the forest the leaves that are sere;
I wake from my slumber and list to the roar
And it saith to my spirit, "No more, never more!"”