Quotes about Cold
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
- Cormac McCarthy
Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
- Cormac McCarthy
They struggled forever in the roads cold coagulate.
- Cormac McCarthy
Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul.
- DH Lawrence
It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
- DH Lawrence
A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist.
- Oscar Wilde
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
- Thomas Jefferson
but I do not take them off, for it is too cold to lie stockingless. It takes a long time for my body to heat its place in the bed. Once I have generated a silhouette of warmth, I dare not move, for there is a cold place one-half inch in any direction.
- Toni Morrison
She may doubt your sincerity or turn a cold shoulder to your attempts at sacrificial love.
- Tony Evans
New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.
- Jack Kerouac
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
- Victor Hugo
It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.
- Victor Hugo