Buzzing Quote by David Samuels

“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“A receipt blown crazily across the parking lot, was, perhaps, a moth.”

— Rae Armantrout

“The scent of growth, quiet and green, hung heavy in the air. I heard everything. I saw everything. I could count the craters on…

— Molly Harper

“With the engine stalled, we would notice the deep silence reigning in the park around us, in the summer villa before us, in the…

— Orhan Pamuk

“There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white…

— Missy Lyons

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?”

— Emile Cioran

“And now I'm back outside again sitting in the white plastic chair looking at the dew on the gas cap of my car. A…

— Nicholson Baker

“Fireflies Hey, fireflies! Fly higher, guys! Fly high above this place. Till a sky rise is a wire’s size. Then fly off into space.…

— Bo Burnham

“And the roaches. The roaches were so bold in his flat that turning on the lights did not startle them. They waved their three-inch…

— Junot Díaz

“I could hear the hiss of various gases escaping the engine and the tires still spinning outside, above, and there was the creak of…

— Andrew Davidson

“Successive bursts of static came through the headphones, against a background of deep, low-pitched murmuring, which seemed to me the very voice of the…

— Stanislaw Lem

“Then the wind died down and the air grew warm and the flies awoke and started to drone, and they were a constant background…

— J.T. McGowan