Cold Wind Quotes:

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

- Matthew Sweet

source: Song: Nothing Lasts, 1991

topic: Sadness, Blow, Past, Cold Wind

Nothing burns like the cold.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Winter, Cold, Cold Weather, Winter Cold, Winter Season

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fear, Wind, Snow, Coldness, Winter Cold

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

topic: Spring, Winter, Air, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Summer, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

- John Ruskin

topic: Wind, Wings, White, Cold Wind, Whistling

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

source: "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI: "The Directions of the Streets with Remarks on the Winds", Section 1,

topic: Wind, Hot, Cold, Cold Wind

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

- Stephen Leacock

topic: Retirement, Autumn, Blow, Maple, Inspirational Retirement

How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

topic: Life, Retirement, Growing Up, Cold Wind

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

- Sitting Bull

topic: Native American, Wind, People, Prairie, Cold Wind

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

topic: Wind, Long, Drunk, Cold Wind, Claret

The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Dark, Night, Wind, Spooky, Cold Wind

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

topic: Flower, Sunshine, Wind, Cold Wind

The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

- Charles Reznikoff

source: Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Tired, Night, Curves, Asphalt, Cold Wind

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.

- William Carlos Williams

topic: Blue, Wind, Clouds, Cold Wind

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

- Richard Kinder

topic: Wind, Ideas, Fragility, Cold Wind

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

- H. G. Wells

source: H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3987, e-artnow

topic: Blow, Men, Air, Lifeless, Cold Wind

Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man

- Hanshan

topic: Moon, Men, Ice, Shine Bright, Cold Wind

My heart is a garden tired with autumn.

- Sara Teasdale

topic: Tired, Heart, Autumn, Dahlias, Cold Wind

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

- George Mackay Brown

topic: Men, Wind, Stories, Cold Wind

When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.389, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Heart, Sunshine, Clouds, Cold Wind, Troubled Heart

I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

topic: Liars, I Love Him, Thinking, Superfluous, Cold Wind

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Real, Rain, America, Cold Wind, Thunderbolts

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

- Robin Green

topic: Dog, Jobs, Wind, Cold Wind

Wine makes all things possible.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Wine, Best Wine, Cold Wind, Great Wine

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Wind, Mushrooms, Criticism, Cold Wind

the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.

- Harold Brodkey

topic: Spring, Butterfly, Wind, Chrysalis, Cold Wind

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Feet, Wrinkles, Dust, Pollen, Cold Wind