A Quote by W. H. Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

W. H. Auden

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Death Distant Picnic Sound Thunder

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W. H. Auden
English - Poet
February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.

Peter Sagal

A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred

William Ross Wallace

Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

Patti Smith

I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.

Zac Brown

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

Margaret Atwood

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

William Steig

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

Yasunari Kawabata

I go where the sound of thunder is.

Alfred M. Gray

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.