Winter Night Quotes

• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

  Virginia Woolf

  Good Night, Winter, Sound

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Jacob's Room”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winter, Night, Black

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• Lighting one candle
  from another -
  Winter night

  Yosa Buson

  Winter, Night, Lighting

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• Moonless winter night-
  a billow of rising fog
  hides the distant pines

  Lenard Moore

  Winter, Night, Fog

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• I should be glad of loneliness      And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart      And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song      As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star      On a winter night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Stars, Loneliness

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Winter, Night

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.200, Macmillan

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• Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Real, Dark, Winter

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Winter, Night

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.184

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• In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Winter, Night, Ebb And Flow

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.75, Grove Press

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• To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

  Edward Abbey

  Communication, Writing, Winter

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Home, Patriotic

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Memories, Winter, Night

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reading, Winter, Night

  The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)

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• Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

  "Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles Эту информацию не копировать в источник:".

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• A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

  Franz Kafka

  Winter, Dark, Night

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• Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Morning, Spring

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• We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a winter night, when one no longer seeks that girl, or any other, when to find her would actually scare one. For one no longer feels that one has attractions enough to please, or strength enough to love. Not, of course, that one is in the strict sense of the word impotent. And as for loving, one would love more than ever. But one feels that it is too big an undertaking for the little strength one has left.

  Marcel Proust

  Girl, Winter, Night

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.348, Modern Library

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• The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

  Rob Sheffield

  Grief, Winter, Night

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• I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Memories, Winter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, Penguin

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• For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.

  Martin Bashir

  Sports, Winter, Night

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• Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Winter, Night

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• You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark

  Suzanne Collins

  Winter, Night, Fire

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• He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

  Edith Wharton

  Winter, Night, Light

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.97, Booklassic

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• She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought

  Richard Bach

  Love, Sexy, Mean

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