Mountain Quotes
2288 quotes by 1426 authors
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Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion…
— Faith Hunter
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God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating…
— Russell Brand
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He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious…
— Hermann Hesse
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Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so…
— Jean Sasson
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If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy…
— Jimi Hendrix
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten…
— Robert Jordan
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Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Disney World?†Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?†His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re not on vacation!…
— James Patterson
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from…
— John Muir
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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same…
— Hermann Hesse
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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of…
— Laini Taylor
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Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few…
— Derek Landy
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One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.
— Cassandra Clare
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To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with…
— Jacqueline Carey
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I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does…
— Pablo Neruda
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether…
— Khaled Hosseini
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The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out…
— Rick Riordan
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hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of…
— Khaled Hosseini
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