Colour Quotes

781 quotes by 574 authors

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? — Virginia Woolf
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. — Roberto Bolano
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink… — Jeanette Winterson
A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame.… — Tanith Lee
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy… — Oscar Wilde
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far… — Patrick O'Brian
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its… — Jean Rhys
I have scars on my hands from touching certain peopleâ€¦Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. — J D Salinger
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood… — Jose Saramago
If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of… — Margaret Cho
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;… — Thomas Hardy
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying… — Richard Dawkins
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and… — Charles Dickens
What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time… — Rohinton Mistry
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant… — Alex Garland
Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible. — Roma Tearne
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on… — Markus Zusak
And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour?… — Anna Akhmatova
Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,… — John Galsworthy

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