Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful… — George Bernard Shaw
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. — John Cheever
And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads… — Tim O'Brien
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or… — Neil Gaiman
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains… — Elizabeth Kostova
One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. — John Muir
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It… — Jodi Picoult
I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't… — Charles Bukowski
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains — Greg Mortenson
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits… — Margaret Atwood
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that… — Herman Melville
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething… — H P Lovecraft
Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains… — Joel Osteen
By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate. — Aimee Friedman
I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. — H P Lovecraft
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I… — Maya Angelou
Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains. — Immaculee Ilibagiza
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods… — John Muir
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of… — George Bernard Shaw
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in… — Robert A. Heinlein
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting? — James Clavell
Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their… — Mikhail Lermontov

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