Best night & wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.”

Feels Looks Littles Earth Night Humanity Energy Stars Sky Wind Buddhism Purity Dots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.”

Stills Book Night Wind

Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...”

Knows Stills Night Love Is Doors Wind Late Flying Bluebird

Author:Paul McCartney

“This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.”

Men Joy Night Break Tree Wind Lows Wine Fruit Bread Broke Crops Grapes

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Monks congregate like dogs in a kennel, From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge, Is one the course of the wind, is one the water of the sea? Is one the spark of the fire, of unrestrainable tumult? Monks congregate like wolves, From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge. They know not when the deep night and dawn divide. Nor what is the course of the wind, or who agitates it, In what place it dies away, on what land it roars.”

Knows Night Dies Courses Water Fire Sea Land Dog Wind Superiors Contact Dawn Acquire Divides Sparks Monk Tumult Agitate

Author:Taliesin

“May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.”

May Eye Night Sides Watches Sun Dog Wind Bears Rain Blue Miles Over You Trails Fourteen Owl Reverie Lonesome Dazzle Ridges Campfire Rattlesnakes Potholes

Author:Edward Abbey

“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”

World Long Earth Night Faith Sea Wind Breaths Lays Rounds Edges Naked Melancholy Shore Folds Withdrawing Girdles Shingles Round Earth

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.”

Ifs World Book Moving Night Levels Democracy Wind Happenings Selling Moving Away Top Down Winds Of Change

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s”

Years Night Song Cry Wind Mets Mountain Horse Rounds Track Stranger Hearing Ghost Tales Hills Silver Legends Waking Midnight Cliffs Cattle Huts Roaming Campfire Stallions

Author:Elyne Mitchell

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.”

Thinking Feels Long Doe Important Sometimes Lying Night Stars Wind Importance Naked Beach Sand Grain Vocabulary Pillow Very Deep Indescribable Grains Of Sand Coconuts

Author:Marlon Brando

“From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.”

Two Bigs Faces Night Four One Thing Heard Wind Towns Mobile Memphis

Author:Johnny Mercer

“The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.”

Night Trouble Air Wind Summer Rain Died Warm Storm Spoiled Tumult Summer Days

Book:The Poems of Celia Thaxter

Source: The Poems of Celia Thaxter

“My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.”

Knows Years Body Age Night Lost Morning Tree Wind Bears Clouds Bitter Fifty Bags Destination Shells Traveler Pilgrim Wallets Peaches Snail Alms Old Trees Morning And Night

Author:Matsuo Basho

“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.”

Ifs Night Social Half Quality Talking Wind Authority Ocean Window Independence Institutions Accepted Sheep Shepherds Roaring

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.”

Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations

“A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.”

Night Sound Air Wind Distance Melancholy Sigh Dwelling

Author:William C. Bryant

“Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”

Long Night Fall Walks Wind Cold Return Rain Mark Grey November Oaks Bronze Cold Night

Author:Gladys Taber

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”

Enough Night White Silence Wind Summer Woods Splendor Rapture Summer Nights Wind Blowing Moonshine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)

“And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.”

May Two Facts Might Night Black White Sea Sky Wind Moon Blue Caught Rage Circles Ballet Centre Never Change Geometry Radius Castaway

Author:Yann Martel

“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.”

Humans Mean Night Stars Human Beings Love Is Sea Wind Waste

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.”

Two Night Wind Hair Window Blow Lanes Busted

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.”

Enough Together Night Dies Strong Wind Logic Heavy Chains Massive Links Wire Strong Enough

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.”

Source: Images: my life in film

“There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.”

Men Night Fire Saws Wind Stillness Spooky

Book:Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

“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

“For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.”

Trying Hands Night Doors Building Wind Window Rounds Seeking Tricks Wander Unseen Spooky Moaning Crevice

Book:The Chimes

Source: The Chimes

“I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers

“Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.”

Men Long Night Stars Dark Wind Moon Riding Wet All Night Moon And Stars

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”

Mind Firsts Night Stars Grows Nature Education Sun Influence Wind Importance Blow Grass Sunset

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.”

People Long Night Stars Pleasure Rooms Sun Sky Sweet Wind Flower Long Time Cat Likes Silver Carrie Bowls Midnight Purple Moonlight Liquid Night Sky Mistrust Paws

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.”

Night Silence Rich Sky Wind Solitude Reign Sigh Gloom

Author:Lionel Johnson

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