Cold Mountain Quotes:

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Needs, Cold Mountain, Mines

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

- Gary Snyder

topic: Rain, Clouds, Wind, White Clouds, Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

- Hanshan

topic: Son, Forever, Mountain, Cold Mountain

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Journey, Thinking, Cold Mountain

What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Life, Knowing, Goes On, Lost You, Cold Mountain

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

- Hanshan

source: Paul Kahn, Hanshan, Gary Snyder (1989). “Han Shan in English”, White Pine Pr

topic: Men, Mountain, Way, Cold Mountain

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

- Charles Frazier

topic: Wish, Suits, Wipe, Cold Mountain

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Character, Foul, Mark, Cold Mountain

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Spirit, Cases, Burned, Cold Mountain

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.279, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Mistake, Bird, Singing, Marrying, Cold Mountain

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Clouds, White, Ties, White Clouds, Dharma Bums

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

- Emily Bronte

source: "Wuthering Heights".

topic: Rocks, Delight, Littles, Foliage, Cold Mountain

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Mind, Age, Literature, Cold Mountain, Seeming

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Love, Mind, Pleasure, Literary Love, Cold Mountain

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Wish, Want, Nerves, Life Affirming, Cold Mountain

He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.347, Atlantic Monthly Press

topic: Taken, Space, Long, Cold Mountain

That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Pain, Memories, Giving, Lasting Memories, Cold Mountain

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Brother, Past, Self, Cold Mountain, Separate Lives

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Powerful, Air, Comforting, Cold Mountain

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Regret, Names, Might, Cold Mountain

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Eye, Angel, Men, Inaccessible, Cold Mountain

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Writing, Mountain, Looks, Cold Mountain, Disparity

While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

- Charles Frazier

source: "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

topic: Clever, Writing, Two, Two Worlds, Cold Mountain

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Horse, Nice, House, Cold Mountain, Nice House

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Death, Running, Laughter, Thyme, Wild Strawberries

People ask the way to Cold Mountain Roads do not go through Summer arrives yet the ice has not melted Though the sun is out it's foggy and dim How did I arrive here? My mind and yours are not the same When our minds are one You will be here too

- Hanshan

topic: Summer, Ice, People, Cold Mountain

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

- Hanshan

topic: Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

- Hanshan

topic: Men, Shine Bright, Rocks, Cold Mountain

Someone sits in a mountain vale A robe of clouds, rainbows for tassels The fragrant forest is the place to live The road has been long and difficult With a heart full of doubt and regret A life has passed and nothing has been accomplished Others call it failure I stand alone devoted to this Cold Mountain life

- Hanshan

topic: Regret, Heart, Clouds, Cold Mountain, Tassels

If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by

- Hanshan

topic: Home, Dark, Men, Cold Mountain

If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I've forgotten the road by which I came

- Hanshan

topic: Lao Tzu, Peaceful Places, Cold Mountain, Laos

If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again

- Hanshan

topic: House, Mountain, Cold, Cold Mountain

Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs

- Hanshan

topic: Karma, Night, Worry, Cold Mountain

Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds?

- Hanshan

topic: Rain, Clouds, Wind, Snares, White Clouds

How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

- Hanshan

topic: Rain, Flower, Moon, Clear Water, Cold Mountain

Moon Bloodgood is so dedicated, and I was impressed with her dedication. She was put into some grueling situations - cold, freezing, thrown into mud puddles, cold mountains and she didn't complain once. A lot of actresses would have said, 'Ok, that's a half-hour reset for my hair and make-up' and she didn't; she stuck with it.

- Karl Urban

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Moon, Dedication, Hair, Reset, Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men

- Hanshan

topic: Home, Cutting, Men, White Clouds, Peaceful Life

I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to watch things be themselves Men don't come this far into the mountains Where white clouds gather and billow Dry grass makes a comfortable mattress The blue sky is a fine quilt Happy to pillow my head on the rock I leave heaven and earth to endless change

- Hanshan

topic: Lingering, White Clouds, Mattresses, Cold Mountain

When you live on Cold Mountain long enough the autumns pass quickly When you live alone you have no worries When you leave the doors open no one bothers you The bubbling stream runs forever In the cave a clay pot boils over a fire on the ground A wandering breeze stirs the fragrant pines When hungry I eat one simple meal And lean against the rock in complete harmony

- Hanshan

topic: Running, Autumn, Simple, Clay Pots, Cold Mountain

As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am completely free With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever There are roads, but they do not reach the world Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain

- Hanshan

topic: Moon, Night, Clouds, White Clouds, Cold Mountain

Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

- Jay Leno

topic: Mass Destruction, Law, Rivers, Sean, Cold Mountain

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

- Anthony Minghella

source: "Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply missed" by Stephanie Busari, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

topic: Ambitious, Mountain, Hollywood, Movie Making, Cold Mountain

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

- Jerry Garcia

topic: Blow, Wind, Mountain, Cold Mountain

I dreamed a place where I have come to dwell Cold Mountain says it all Monkeys scream, the valley fog is cold My door blends with the color of the peaks I gather leaves and thatch a hut among the pines Dig a pond and lead a trickle from the brook Long ago I left the world behind Eating ferns I pass the years in peace

- Hanshan

topic: Fog, Doors, Long Ago, Cold Mountain, Ferns