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Quotes About Cold

There was a cold wind out on the street. It picked up the dust, whirled it about and suddenly scattered it, flinging it down like black chaff. There was an implacable severity in the frost, in the branches that tapped together like bones, in the icy blue of the tram-lines.
~ Vasily Grossman
love being like a lump of coal: hot, it burns you; cold, it makes you dirty.
~ Vasily Grossman
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
~ Victor Hugo
Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs.
~ Victor Hugo
It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.
~ Victor Hugo
It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts.
~ Victor Hugo
Winter changes the water of heaven and the heart of man into a stone.
~ Victor Hugo
The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of all distresses, the coldest.
~ Victor Hugo
Ah, miten mielelläni hukuttautuisin, jollei vesi olisi niin kylmää!
~ Victor Hugo
Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.
~ Kristin Hannah
The door banged open, bringing with it a rush of cold night air. Dried leaves scudded inside, dancing across the floor, plastering themselves like tiny black hands to the stones of the fireplace. The flames within shivered and thinned. The door slammed shut.
~ Kristin Hannah
The waters of the past were as cold as she'd expected, even in the heat of this gorgeous summer morning.
~ Kristin Hannah
I'm going to go in. Meredith will need some help. Don't stay out here too long." "Why not?" her mother said, staring at the copper column. "You'll catch pneumonia." "You think I could die from the cold? I am not a lucky woman.
~ Kristin Hannah
Sometime around three in the morning, she got out of bed and went to the porch, where she sat wrapped in a blanket, staring at little beyond the vapor of her own breath. But it wasn't cold enough to numb her grief.
~ Kristin Hannah
Darkness cold isolation got inside him in a terrible way and turned him into one of the many wild animals that populate a place
~ Kristin Hannah
Come on now, laddie," Dunneldeen said. "Just hold on and they'll pull you up to the plane. 'Tis a wee bit cold for a swim.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Love is gentle and love is kind, The sweetest flower when first it's new, But love grows old, And waxes cold, And fades away, like the morning dew Pretty
~ L.A. Meyer
I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I'm the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I'm a gift beyond measure, a matter of course, and I'm yielded with pleasure- when taken by force.
~ L.J. Smith
She had seen those eyes dark with brooding anger and cold as ice, she'd seen his gaze veiled like a spiderweb and shattering like a gate under pressure. But she'd never seen them as they were now. Full of wondering joy and disbelief, and an almost frightened awe.
~ L.J. Smith
It seemed like just another Monday, innocent but for its essential Mondayness, not to mention its Januaryness. It was cold, and it was dark—in the dead of winter the sun didn't rise until eight—but it was also lovely. The falling snow and the early hour conspired to paint Prague ghostly, like a tintype photograph, all silver and haze.
~ Laini Taylor
Incluso en la cálida primavera de Marruecos, sentía frío, como si lo único que pudiera devolverle su calor fuera él.
~ Laini Taylor
The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.
~ Lama Willa Miller
It was no summer progress. 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. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of Winter.
~ Lancelot Andrewes
Last we consider the time of their coming, the season of the year. It was no summer progress. 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. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solsitio brumali, 'the very dead of winter
~ Lancelot Andrewes