Quotes About Atmosphere

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.

The room seemed to have grown darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead.

Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest

of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Had he been informed by an indisputable authority that the end of the world was to be finally accomplished by a catastrophic disturbance of the atmosphere, he would have assimilated the information under the simple idea of dirty weather, and no other, because he had no experience of cataclysms, and belief does not necessarily imply comprehension.

There is something going on in the sky like a decomposition, like a corruption of the air, which remains as still as ever. After all, mere clouds, which may or may not hold wind or rain. Strange that it should trouble me so. I feel as if all my sins had found me out.

The calm was absolute, a dead, flat calm, the stillness of a dead sea and of a dead atmosphere.

L'atmosfera di burocrazia ucciderebbe qualsiasi cosa respirasse aria di sforzo umano, estinguerebbe parimenti speranza e timore sotto la supremazia di carta e inchiostro.

Mr Verloc was going westward through a town without shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold

It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.

La palabra marfil se respiraba en el aire, se suspiraba en los murmullos, incluso, me imagino, aparecía en los ruegos al cielo.

La luna se alzaba. Figuras negras vagaban alrededor, vertiendo agua sobre los escombros

The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.

They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits.

the Revolution did not produce a single piece of imaginative literature that has endured. The generation of writers who came of age during the Revolution breathed in a supercharged ideological atmosphere; they pressed themselves and their art into the service of their country, only to discover that a republic could be as demanding a patron as a wealthy prince.

Your copy has to put the prospect into a relaxed buying environment.

Habíamos dejado el aire caliente allá arriba y nos íbamos hundiendo en el puro calor sin aire.

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

The natives of the rain are rainy men.

We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

The morality of the poet's radiant and productive atmosphere is the morality of the right sensation.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow.

wind is blowing. It may be a breeze that cools and comforts. It may be a gust