Mist Quotes

• Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Happiness, Moon, Simple

  Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

  Hal Borland

  Beautiful, Morning, Views

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• The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Healing, Clouds

  "Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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• Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, Wonderful, Charm

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.156, GENERAL PRESS

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• his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Dark, Old Life

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

  Rachel Carson

  Running, Moving, Years

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Tree, Green, Quiet

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• I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful

  Aimee Friedman

  Beautiful, Land, Long

  Aimee Friedman (2009). “Sea Change”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

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• The mists of nostalgia color memory.

  Ken Tucker

  Memories, Color, Nostalgia

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• Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

  Edvard Grieg

  Eye, Fog, Way

  Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.22, Mel Bay Publications

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• You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.

  J.R. Ward

  Fog, Thick

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.224, Penguin

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• So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

  Chief White Eagle

  Native American, Long, Pieces

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• Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Change, Rain, Moon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

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• The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

  Graham Joyce

  Air, Unicorn, Prancing

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• The spirit-world around this world of sense
  Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
  Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
  A vital breath of more ethereal air.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Halloween, Kids, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.628

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• Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Live Free

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.48, David M Gross

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• Prayer clears the mist
  and brings back peace to the Soul . . .

  Rumi

  Prayer, Soul

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

  Robert Frost

  Spirit, Kindred, Haze

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

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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Brave, Grace

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• I am the dust in the sunlight,
  I am the ball of the sun . . .
  I am the mist of morning,
  the breath of evening . . . .
  I am the spark in the stone,
  the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
  The rose and the nightingale
  drunk with its fragrance.
  I am the chain of being,
  the circle of the spheres,
  The scale of creation,
  the rise and the fall.
  I am what is and is not . . .
  I am the soul in all.

  Rumi

  Morning, Fall, Dust

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• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Autumn, Fog

  'Ode: Autumn'

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• I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

  Julien Green

  Real, Fog, World

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

  George R. R. Martin

  Memories, Men, Sea

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3526, Bantam

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• One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

  Milarepa

  Fog, Appearance, Should

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• The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Men, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.512, Delphi Classics

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