“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”

— David Benioff , book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

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David Benioff 13

writer 1970

James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian

Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 135

“People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”

Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt

Variant: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

““Abjuring love? Real people don’t do that. Now you’re the one who sounds like someone on a stage. That’s not the real world. Real people follow their hearts, wherever it takes them. Real people refuse to be put into a little tiny box. You can say you love me or you don’t love me, it doesn’t matter; I know you have foresworn nothing except an existence you found intolerable.”
She really did smile this time. “Now you’re making me sound like a heroine. Be honest, Lucius. For all that you go on about the real world with its real people, you don’t really want to live in it, either.””

Ellen Kushner book The Privilege of the Sword

Part III, Chapter VIII (p. 299)
The Privilege of the Sword (2006)

“I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

(July 1910)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
Context: I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.