Mist Quotes
294 quotes by 242 authors
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.
— Ruth Pitter
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff from north to…
— Louis Bleriot
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Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
— Sigurd F. Olson
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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one…
— George Eliot
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
— Gene Wolfe
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers…
— Theodore White
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The mists of nostalgia color memory.
— Ken Tucker
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
— Albert Schweitzer
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the…
— Chief Seattle
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I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.
— Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog,…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running…
— Clare B. Dunkle
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Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was…
— James E. Talmage
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Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
— J. Nozipo Maraire
Who Wrote These Mist Quotes
242 authors contributed a total of 294 Mist Quotes, led by these top contributors: