“She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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Patrick Rothfuss236
American fantasy writer 1973Related quotes
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Sarah Bakewell book How to Live
Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), p. 51.
“She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Empty heads make the best drums. And the emptier the head, the fuller the sound.”
Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014) German writer and activist
Auf hohlen Köpfen ist gut trommeln. Und je hohler ein Kopf, desto voller das Echo. <br class="br">Acceptance speech on receiving the Alternative Büchner Prize, 1993. MIZ - Materialien und Informationen zur Zeit. ISSN 0170-6748, Heft 3, 1993, ibka.org http://www.ibka.org/artikel/miz93/preis.html
“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
A misquotation of a haiku by Auden found elsewhere on this page ("Thoughts of his own death" etc.)
Misattributed
Variant: Thoughts of his own death,
like the distant roll
of thunder at a picnic.