The Great Silence 1918-1920 Quotes

“Silence can bring with it a vacancy that in its turn craves the distraction of the human voice or the obscuring impact created...by music. These distractions can help to stifle the terror of being abandoned to the silence of the noisy mind.”
― Juliet Nicolson, The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War

“I suppose you think the war is over and that we shall go back to the kind of world you lived in before,’ Lawrence snapped, in a tone of deep scorn. ‘But the war isn’t over,’ he continued, answering his own question. ‘The hate and evil is greater now than ever . . . It makes me sick to see you rejoicing like a butterfly in the last rays of the sun before the winter . . . hate will be dammed up in men’s hearts and will show itself in all sorts of ways which will be worse than war. Whatever happens there can be no peace on earth.”
― Juliet Nicolson, The Great Silence: 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War