Best cold & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!”

Certain House Hours Dark Half Cold Bottom Strikes Clock Dry Half Hours Null

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.”

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.”

Soul Pain Dark Fields Broken Cold Rain My Soul

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.”

Sometimes Dream Dark Cold London Dark Dreams

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.”

Faces Dark Five Feet Cold Green Snakes Gliding

Book:Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864

Source: Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864

“I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.”

Ifs World Children Said Book Turns Asks Parent Dark Cold Perfection Blame Green Expected Staring Thirty Sat They Said Shelves Hostility Leather Neat Resent

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.”

Way Art Light Dark Cold Heat Constructive Dark Places

Author:Barbra Streisand

“The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.”

Source: The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.”

Light Order Energy Dark Grace Cold Library Calm Warm Wit Lakes Reminders Librarian Continuity Reservoirs Libraries And Librarians

Author:Germaine Greer

“In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.”

Knows Years Believe Earth Belief Felt Water Dark Sweet Cold Pure Bosoms

Book:Men, women, and places

Source: Men, women, and places

“June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.”

World Way Dark Cold Spots Throwing New Ways June

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!”

Dream Dark Flower Cold Winter Cold Weather Dark Days

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.”

“The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.”

Light Dark Perfect Cold Warm Antidote Creepy Cozy

Author:Candice Olson

“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”

Long Moments Light Nature Church Lines Dark Cities Sun Wall Cold Glory Bird Shining Silent West Winter Clouds Hills Streams Gloom Airy City Walls

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit

“Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.”

Stills Night Black Dark Behinds Wind Cold Mass Train Clouds Driving Funeral Gloomy Spooky Lingering Hurrying Gliding Cold Wind

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”

World Hard Moving Dark Knowledge Forever Clear Imagine Sea Cold Mouths Historical Breasts Salt Symbolism

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)

“I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.”

Ifs Looks Stills Dark Cold Paper West Rounds Winter Shoulders Awful Milk Gardening Owl Larks Chilly Surly Milkman

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.”

Long Stills Night Literature Stars Dark Century Cold Dust Noses Stillness Ancestor Woe Pointing Cadence Cold Night

Book:The Call of the Wild and White Fang

Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

“The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.”

Eye Black Dark Behinds Sea Streets Cold Down And Holes Passing Passings Ashes Ink Torches Steep Canyons Squids

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“If there's a heaven, it's a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.”

Ifs Heaven Dark Cold Lonely Dark Places Lonely Places

Author:Hiroshi Sakurazaka

“Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!”

Remember Dark Fronts Cold Praying Hot Warm Coal Corridors Miners Stoves Coal Miners

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.”

Humans Children Reason Born Dark Hell Forever Our Lives Sky Goes On Cold Bears Bounds Heavy Fats Smoke Lacking Oblivion Event Horizon Suffocating

Author:Alan Moore

“Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.”

Faces Dark Streets Building Cold Hero Weapons Destruction Angry Wide Roof Royal Statues Parades Vienna

Author:Quentin Crisp

“When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.”

Soul Dies Heaven Dark Prayer Walks Lord Morning Mines Cold Please Let Me Down And Lays Dear Blow Burden My Soul Sunshine More Time Savior Dear Lord

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Surfing and music have always been two completely separate things in my life, and a lot of people, especially in the UK, don't really get surfing very much. They think it's the Californian dream. They're like, "Oh, so you're a surfer and you're this and that," and it's like, I go surfing because I like the outdoors. In England it's freezing cold, and it's usually dark and raining and it's the middle of winter, and you do it because it's invigorating. It's like going on a walk in some remote place on the planet. It's really - it's not very glamorous.”

People Thinking Dream Dark Cold Rain Winter Surfing Glamorous

Author:Ben Howard

“37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.”

Trying Littles Bits Dark Numbers Darkness Four Imagine Sadness Cold Six Shy Porridge

Author:Daniel Tammet

“I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Waiting Dark Pieces Minutes Cold Drink Heat Chocolate Editors Invited

Author:Alber Elbaz

“He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.”

Thinking Two Wish Dark Forever Wind Listening Cold Bed Wake Up Filled Peaceful Remembered Heat Warmth Waking Rushing Quilts Cold Outside

Book:The Tommyknockers

Source: The Tommyknockers

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.”

Night Sound Hurt Dark Tree Wind Arms Listening Cold Balance Ears Rose Get Up Calculations Skulls Blackness Autistic Reckoning Wind In The Trees

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.”

Thinking Persons Country Age School Fall Names Bits Dark Cold Fishes Dry Monk Dark Ages Detached Slippery Scholarly Madly In Love Squires

Author:Regina Doman

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

Love Light Dark Love Is Cold Healthy Scene Sick Hot Heavy Awake Hot And Cold

Author:William Shakespeare

“His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.”

Ends Body Running Earth Faces Dark Cold Beats Mouths Flow Skins Breaths Islands Streams Shore Cliffs Wrecks Washing Interruptions Unending Cabins Eyelids

Book:Foe: A Novel

Source: Foe: A Novel

“I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and broken glass everywhere, and it was so dark and so cold and no one was coming to help.”

Years Helping Eye Remember Moving Lying Mother Father Sides Dark Five Blood Car Broken Cold Glasses Hearing Staring Five Years Dirt Comforting Crushed Five Year Olds Broken Glass Lying Here

Book:Bitten

Source: Bitten

“Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again. Peace. Was that the word?”

Ifs Men World Heart Sometimes Light Beautiful Felt Dark Saws Heard Sky Land This World Flower Cold Terrible Hot Blue Calm Lips Evening Burning Flames Light And Dark Hot And Cold Evening Sky

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.”

Feels Hands Remember Stuff Sides Dark Stage Listening Cold Summer Gold Dresses Theatre Tall Waking Scent Lap Folds Freeze Daydreaming Stockings Remembers Everything Drapes

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“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 of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.”

Dream Would Be Dark Fire Cold Somewhere Out There

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.”

Way Life Long Real Reality Would Be Sides Dark Cold Higher Summer Illusion Winter Deny Warm Snow Pleasant Stations Temporary Pretending Dark Side Wintertime

Book:Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

“It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.”

Giving Humans Ends Loses Dark Human Beings Rich Cold Terrible Naked Terrible Things Small Changes

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.”

Firsts Wells Littles Lasts Night Stars Imagination Dark Feet Sky Cold Moon California Drag Last Night Oh Well Flare

Book:The diary of James Schuyler

Source: The diary of James Schuyler

“They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.”

World Light Earth Young Night Stars Dark Heard Figures Cold Thousand Ten Rounds Bells Thieves Electric Bores Glowing Orchard All The Pretty Horses

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!”

Hate Dark Air Cold England Iron New England Don't Hate Cold Air

Book:Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

“I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.”

Ifs Feels Faces Dark Strange Cold Shadow Scared Noise Your Face Spine Shiver Percy Jackson And The Olympians Olympian Peeling

Book:Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

“I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.”

I Can Light Wanted Water Dark Rooms Wonder Watches Cold Glasses Showers Fog Wakes You

Author:Jeaniene Frost

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