"The Noise of Time" Quotes
"The Noise of Time" is a novel that delves into the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich during the tumultuous times of Stalin's regime.
fiction | 184 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
The noise of time is the noise of history.
But what is so wonderful about this noise of time, this ineradicable tumult of life, is that it helps us to know that we are alive and not dead.
History is the only kind of history that people believe in, and it is a lie.
The noise of time hums in the mind.
We can be sure of the past only because it is recorded and therefore true; and we can be sure of the future only because it is not recorded and therefore unpredictable.
The noise of time is a distraction from the music of being.
The only story that one can believe is the story of history.
The noise of time is the sound of failure.
In the noise of time, a voice is just a voice.
The noise of time is an unending cacophony.
