Cold Quotes

3580 Cold quotes by 2210 unique authors

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. — George Orwell
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood — Jane Austen
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had… — James Joyce
It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but… — Terry Pratchett
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than… — Sara Teasdale
Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams — Wystan Hugh Auden
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving… — Ernest Hemingway
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and… — D. H. Lawrence
That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that -… — Lorrie Moore
Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold… — Jodi Picoult
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold… — Philip Pullman
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from… — Radclyffe Hall
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute… — Henry David Thoreau
It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for… — Jonathan Safran Foer
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you… — Stephen King
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka
And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need… — Gregory Maguire
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom… — Christopher Moore
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? — James Joyce
Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will… — George S. Patton
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster

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