Alarms Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the…

— Alan Moore

“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.”

— Alan Moore

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

— Ivan Panin

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

— Ivan Panin

“When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.”

— Jules Verne

“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School, I discovered…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I know in our mainstream culture, the loudest voices and the most shocking voices are the ones that get the noise.

— Sarah Drew

“Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death. They're…

— carolee dean

“The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.”

— Elizabeth Peters

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

— Anonymous