eerie stillness Quotes

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

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