Cold Quotes

3580 Cold quotes by 2210 unique authors

It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! — Barbara Mertz
Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and… — Shannon Hale
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if… — Margaret Atwood
When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy,… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad… — Banana Yoshimoto
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville
There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may… — John O'Donohue
Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her… — Janet Fitch
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold… — Stanley Kunitz
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one… — Sherman Alexie
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before… — Michael Ondaatje
I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to… — Bernhard Schlink
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the… — Albert Camus
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It… — Che Guevara
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove… — Mark Twain
Nights're cold now. Nights g'cold, y'get sick. S'what happens. — Erin Hunter
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters… — Russell Kirk
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point,… — Barbara Kingsolver
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and… — Gregory Maguire
Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the… — Mark Z. Danielewski

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