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Quotes About Cold

The water was so cold it made her arms ache, and she soon decided to let the fast-running stream do the washing for her. She soaped the garments well, weighted them down with stones, and then went to join the boys.
~ Unknown
Once more do I warn thee,' answered the old man with undisturbed composure, "Wake not the dead" — let her rest.' 'Aye, but not in the cold grave: she shall rather rest on this bosom which burns with eagerness to clasp her.
~ Ludwig Tieck
Suddenly the guy looked up, his blue eyes catching mine. They made me think of the heart of a glacier, of how, when you touch dry ice with your bare skin, you cannot let go even if you try.
~ Jodi Picoult
For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues.
~ John Cheever
I'm a prisoner to my addiction I'm addicted to a life that's so empty and so cold I'm a prisoner to my decisions.
~ The Weeknd
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold
~ Ogden Nash
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Sometimes when it rains, it reminds me that I'm alone, cold and there have been better times.
~ Unknown
I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death.
~ Simon Schama
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
The cold is lonely person's way of feeling alone and death
~ PureDragonWolf
When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood.
~ Isaac Marion, Boarded Window
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I think cryotherapy is excellent for anybody and not just athletes.
~ Jason Kidd
Alas, poor Yorick! he said. She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I'm delirious, said Howl. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders, said Sophie. Why can't you cure yourself with a spell? Because there is no cure for a cold, Howl said dolefully.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
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.
~ Diane Setterfield
Cuando el miedo y el frío hacen de ti una estatua en tu propia cama, no ansíes que la Verdad pura y dura acuda en tu auxilio. Lo que necesitas es el mullido consuelo de un relato. La protección balsámica, adormecedora, de una mentira.
~ Diane Setterfield
I feel quite unreasonably happy this minute, watching them both; knowing I can go and join them in the warmth, yet staying here in the cold.
~ Dodie Smith
Is this a mild winter or a harsh winter?
~ Don DeLillo
Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.
~ Donna Tartt
It never occurred to me that half of the population of Vermont wasn't experiencing pretty much what I put myself through every night- bone-crackling cold that made my joints ache, cold so relentless I felt it in my dreams: ice floes, lost expeditions, the lights of search planes swinging over whitecaps as I floundered alone Arctic Seas.
~ Donna Tartt