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Quotes About Dampness

Rommel could smell the sea. At Torbruk the heat and the dust and flies were as bad as they had been in the desert, but it was all made bearable by that occasional whiff of salty dampness in the faint breeze.
~ Ken Follett
Aboveground it rained all the time. He had never seen so much rain. It did not come in thunderstorms, or sudden cloudbursts, to be followed by the relief of clear skies and dry weather. Rather, it was a soft drizzle that drifted down all day, sometimes all week, creeping up the legs of his trousers and down the back of his shirt.
~ Ken Follett
Formless days passed one after the other, as if swollen into an indistinguishable mass by the damp weather.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting,too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades.
~ Kyle MacLachlan
Awkwardly pressed up against him, the Princess seemed to take no notice of their proximity. In the dampness, though, her body heat was near palpable to Luke and he had to force himself to keep his attention on what he was doing.
~ Alan Dean Foster
The only thing bubbles care about is wet and dry.
~ Tom Noddy
Her beauty was cool as this damp breeze, as the moist softness of her own lips.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There were dead rats living in the basement.
~ Louis Sachar
The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears
~ Alexandre Dumas
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
~ Willa Cather
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
~ Du Fu
nodded, resisting a temptation to take over and direct the search himself for the missing truck and driver. Action would be a therapy. The cold of several days, and dampness with it, had
~ Arthur Hailey
the blue mountain's soft lines were like the dampness glowing in the moss
~ Jonathan Cott
I could feel the night hanging on me like a soft, damp bedgown
~ Gillian Flynn
No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.
~ Shannon Hale
I've never found anything good in a basement. Ever.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
I'm a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I'm cooking in the yard all the time. I don't care what the weather is like. My hair is impervious to any kind of dampness, so I don't have too much to worry about.
~ Guy Fieri
Sólo alcanzaba a advertir la casa triste, que Rema estaba como cansada, que apenas llovía y las cosas tenían, sin embargo, algo de húmedo y abandonado
~ Julio Cortazar
The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden's sensibility.
~ Thomas Hardy
By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny black mushrooms to grow overnight from the limp pages of the book on his bedside table. Inman suspected that after such long examination, the grey window had finally said all it had to say.
~ Charles Frazier
Nothing would sleep in that cellar.
~ Theodore Roethke