Purple Quotes

• Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high.

  Byllye Avery

  Queens, Helping, Regal

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• Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

  Suzy Kassem

  Flower, Garden, Color

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• Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

  Epictetus

  White, Long, Individuality

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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, Insanity

  Song: Purple Haze

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• When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

  Mae Jemison

  God, Color, Made

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• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, God, Religious

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Twilight, Sunset

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• Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

  James Whistler

  Trying

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• purple does something strange to me

  Charles Bukowski

  Doe, Strange

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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, Yesterday, Waiting

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

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• Time is purple / Just before night.

  Mary O'Neill

  Time, Night, Night Time

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• Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Waiting, Age

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.56, Hachette UK

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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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• Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Apples

  William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.36, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

  Alice Walker

  Feminist, Lavender, Literature

  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens epigraph (1983)

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• Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dark, Clouds, Islands

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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• Black is not as good as Purple.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fashion, Black

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• When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Dark, Shade

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Tree, Definitions

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• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

  Marge Piercy

  Hands, Erotic, Velvet

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• Dreams are the subtle Dower
  That make us rich an Hour
  Then fling us poor
  Out of the purple door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Doors, Rich

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Healing, Color, People

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• Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

  Eudora Welty

  Flower, Dark, Clouds

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stars, Sky, World

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.76, Penguin Group

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• This great purple butterfly,
  In the prison of my hands,
  Has a learning in his eye
  Not a poor fool understands.

  William Butler Yeats

  Butterfly, Eye, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions

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