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Quotes About Enveloping

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.
~ Scott Holman
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression.
~ William Mougayar
You wrote in a poem, "I love your body," as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more than the senses together, an enveloping sense itself sensuous, as if all the body made sense.
~ David Plante
I was conscious only of a sort of enveloping sensation of icy fear that plucked the nerves out of their fleshly covering, twisted them this way and that, and replaced them quivering.
~ Algernon Blackwood
the soft weight of Europe pulled over us like a quilt.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The important function of an American white sauce was not to enhance but to blanket.
~ Laura Shapiro
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
~ Virginia Woolf
The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Although I can't possibly have a single memory of this place. Then, from deep within me, a profound sense of love radiating out to everything around me complemented by reciprocal waves of love coming at me, enveloping me. All
~ Lisa See
The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.
~ Joe Hill
all this pain. all this crying. it wasn't that she hadn't expected it. she just underestimated it. it felt like a heavy, dark blanket that had been pulled across all of them. she hadn't know that it would make it difficult to breathe. she hadn't guess that it would seem so enveloping. and so total, and so permanent.
~ Elizabeth Noble
A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloudEnveloping the earth.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is something enveloping and voluptuous about the notion of fatality: it keeps you warm.
~ Emil M. Cioran
The cold air chilled Firepaw's bones as blackness wrapped itself around him.
~ Erin Hunter
I try to make it a sonic experience so that when you put your earbuds in or when you're in your room, it sounds like an enveloping feeling. I think that is the most important thing, that wherever you are, it is wrapping you up and making you feel safe and comfortable.
~ Kelela
His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.
~ H.W. Brands
As we were talking, completely happy, thinking of nothing but our joy in being together, night suddenly fell, enveloping all the disorder of the world.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The world has done that already -- possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.
~ Eve Ensler
I play the music of Steven for Steven; ragged, helpless, it owns me, enveloping me with an incomprehensible love -
~ Stasia Ward Kehoe
It was one of those buildings that you don't so much as look at as bathe in.
~ Bill Bryson
Humbaba's] sound is like a flood's sound Slowly forming in the distance, Then enveloping all other sounds
~ Herbert Mason
My hike up the Snake Path at Masada was mystical. The fog rolled in, enveloping the entire mountain.
~ Richard Edelman