Haze Quotes

• Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

  Elinor Glyn

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

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• It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Fog, Enchantment, Add

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• Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

  Tori Amos

  Mind, Daze

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• Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
  The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

  Robert Frost

  Spirit, Kindred, Mist

  Reginald Lansing Cook, Robert Frost (1974). “Robert Frost, a living voice”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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• Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Purple, Yesterday

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hippie, Kissing, Sky

  Song: Purple Haze

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• The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Fog, Looks, Reason

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Dream, Spring

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Thinking, Understanding

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• A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

  Robert Henri

  Distance, Perspective, Mountain

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

  Paul Desmond

  Glasses, Tunes, Want

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• The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Winter, Shining

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Night, Purple

  Song: Purple Haze

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• She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

  Joy Browne

  Selfish, Women, Idiot

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• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

  Rowan Williams

  Trust, Fog, Hands

  "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda". www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth.

  Dave Gorman

  Blue, Views, Sky

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• When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Differences

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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• La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Usa

  Baltasar Gracian (2011). “Oraculo y manual”, p.118, NoBooks Editorial

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• The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Distance

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• I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, People, Hatred

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

  Doris Lessing

  Desire, Shifting, Youth

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Past, Gold

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.195, Anchor

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• I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Distance, Sleep

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• And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dinner, Cigar, Habit

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• When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

  Colin Firth

  Book, Different, World

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