Mist Quotes

294 quotes by 242 authors

Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and… — Nicholson Baker
I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a… — Yusef Komunyakaa
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away… — Alexander Smith
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven. — Robert Southey
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,… — Alexander Pope
How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are… — Alain de Botton
We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns… — Robert R. McCammon
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought. — Dorothy Richardson
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the… — Roald Amundsen
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under… — James Herriot
There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though… — F B Meyer
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is… — William Morley Punshon
You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in. — Stephen Leacock
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be… — Brian Greene
It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west… — Lady Gregory
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every… — Robert Motherwell
...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the… — Edgar Allan Poe

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