Classic Quote by William Faulkner

“Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mist out of earshot.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

“I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored. [...] The wind of my life was blowing me away.…

— James Baldwin

“-the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown…

— Nick Cutter

“The wind blustered in from the sea, setting the horses’ manes streaming sideways, and the gulls wheeled mewing against the blue-and-grey tumble of the…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

“Like dust borne on the breeze, we glide carefree whirling and swirling through our lives, wafting lightly upon lilting updrafts or racing wildly astride…

— Herb J. Smith II

“Sparse on the mesa the dry weeds lashed in the wind like the earth’s long echo of lance and spear in old encounters forever…

— Cormac McCarthy

“A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a…

— Ashim Shanker

“Forgoing eternally, sir, such things as, for example: two fresh-shorn lambs bleat in a new-mown field; four parallel blind-cast linear shadows creep across a…

— George Saunders

“Then the creatures of the high air answered to the battle, foretelling the destruction that would be done that day; and the sea chattered…

— Augusta Gregory

“A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark, flying clouds…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.”

— Sorin Cerin

“Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise.”

— Sherman Kennon