quotations about the cold
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.
DR. SEUSS
The Cat in the Hat
The cold is like a resinous glaze. It lubricates. It fills your mouth with turpentine. Your lungs are greased and you feel a tremendous hunger.
BLAISE CENDRARS
Moravagine
If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.
CHARLES DODGSON
attributed, Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.
CHINESE PROVERB
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
EDITH SITWELL
Taken Care Of
He was glad to be out in the world where the cold was no surprise.
ALEX TAYLOR
The Name of the Nearest River
People ask the way to Cold Mountain.
Cold Mountain? There is no road that goes through.
Even in summer the ice doesn't melt;
Though the sun comes out, the fog is blinding.
How can you hope to get there by aping me?
Your heart and mine are not alike.
If your heart were the same as mine,
Then you could journey to the very center!
HANSHAN
Cold Mountain
Cold? You sof'-skinned city boys oughta git you'ns a 'lectric blanket. We coulda plugged it in th' cig'rette lighter. Cold? Cold! Why I seen it so cold that fish 'as frozen right where they'as a swimmin'. Now 'at's cold.
MEL MEADOWS
Uzzah
It was the kind of cold that didn't make you shiver for the moment, but the kind of cold that went deeper and hung onto your body for hours. It was a cold of sticky wetness that turned your protective clothing into a we wrap of misery. The cold was no longer the antiseptic external chill of winter air but was instead a part of you. Your thoughts centered on the misery of your condition as every step in the near-freezing rain rubbed the cold deep into your skin. The only thing that mattered when caught in a cold like that was getting out.
D.B. SCHROCK
Soulmonger
During these four nights, the cold was so penetrating, that it occasioned ice in warm chambers, and under beds; and, in the day, the wind was so keen, that persons of robust constitutions could scarcely endure to face it.
GILBERT WHITE
The Natural History of Selborne
I have no breath. My lungs shrink and stick to themselves, useless. The cold is like metal. I feel metal in my blood, threading up the back of my neck into my skull.
DIANE TULLSON
Riley Park
The Moon ascends to cold heights
and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses,
lie abandoned by you
JOHN GEDDES
A Familiar Rain
Coolness is an enemy to social enjoyments; coldness is an enemy to every moral virtue; frigidity destroys all force of character.
GEORGE CRABB
English Synonyms
What good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
JOHN STEINBECK
Travels with Charley
The frost grew sharper, and up aloft it turned so cold that the devil kept hopping from one hoof to the other and blowing into his fists, trying to warm his frozen hands.
NIKOLAI GOGOL
The Night Before Christmas
The cold is like something he could peel off the air; layers of it fasten to him, slowing him down, turning him sluggish.
CONRAD WILLIAMS
The Unblemished
Ice is for death and endings.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY
Tigana
The plain and the garden froze and became so cold that even the crows did not dare fly there.
ABOLQASEM FERDOWSI
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
It is always winter now.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Fire & Blood
A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.
LANCELOT ANDREWES
"Of the Nativity"