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source: Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.489, Harvard University Press

topic: Crawling, Damp, Origin Of Species

The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.347

topic: Rain, Dark, Air, Damp

We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it.

- Phyllis Diller

source: Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.68, Penguin

topic: Funny, Baby, Children, Damp, Bus Stops

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Morning, Growing Up, Fungi, Loveless

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Friends, Boys, Lamps, Damp, Aladdin's Lamp

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Clouds, Evil, Shadow, Intervening, Damp

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

- Pete Hamill

topic: Baseball, Morning, Kids, Baseball Games, Spring Training

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Nature, Inspirational Gardening, Damp, Beauty Of The Earth

When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.

- Natsuo Kirino

source: FaceBook post by Natsuo Kirino from Apr 01, 2017

topic: Lying, Dark, Peaceful, Damp

If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries." Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries." "Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with the understatements now?

- Rachel Vincent

source: "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

topic: Ocean, Want, Done, Damp, Kaylee

My office is trashed,” he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. “Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Coffee, Office, Carpet, Damp

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

- Pablo Neruda

source: Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.930, Macmillan

topic: Ivy, Long, Suffering, Long Way, Damp

... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Rain, Believe, People, Damp

Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in." (page 33 , Gollancz edition)

- Nalini Singh

source: Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.34, Penguin

topic: Hurt, Opposites, Giving, Hottest, Cheekbones

Will pushed his hands through his damp hair. “Oh, yes,” he said bitterly. “Perhaps in some other life, beyond this one, when we have passed beyond the river, or turned upon the Wheel, or whatever kind words you want to use to describe leaving this world, I shall find my friend again, my parabatai. But I have lost you now—now, when I need you more than I ever did!

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hair, Hands, Rivers, Damp, Parabatai

And you won’t leave me?” “No.” Alec said. “No, we won’t ever leave you. You know that.” “Never.” Isabelle took his hand, the one Alec wasn’t holding, and pressed it fiercely. “Lightwoods, all together.” She whispered. Jace's hand was suddenly damp where she was holding it, and he realized she was crying, her tears splashing down crying for him, because she loved him; even after everything that had happened, she still loved him. They both did. He fell asleep like that, with Isabelle on one side of him and Alec on the other, as the sun came up with the dawn.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

topic: Damp

Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.

- Naomi Ragen

source: Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.70, Macmillan

topic: Music, Running, Stars, Damp, Botticelli

Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.

- Mary Szybist

source: Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan

topic: Damp

Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.

- Jonathan Mayhew

topic: Art, Strong, Ignorance, Damp

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Fear, Heart, Hair, Boyish, Damp

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Wall, Creativity, Clothes, Damp, Hills And Valleys

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

- Alan Moore

source: "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

topic: Memories, Dark, Childhood, Damp, Poignant

If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

topic: Dirty, School, Dark, Mildew, Locker Room

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Life, Black, Gone, Chimneys, Damp

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Nice, Rain, Paris, Chestnuts, Damp

...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

- John Cassian

topic: Christian, Men, Fire, Orthodox Christian, Damp

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

- T. S. Eliot

source: 'Morning at the Window' (1917)

topic: Soul, Gates, Housemaids, Damp

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.203

topic: Hands, Soul, Path, Damp

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

- Malcolm De Chazal

topic: Life, Wise, Depressing, Gloom, Damp

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

topic: Men, Air, Ideas, Sweets And Desserts, Damp

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.

- Ciaran Carson

source: Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

topic: Wall, Eye, Rocks, Leonardo, Damp

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes”, p.265

topic: Nature, Moon, Clouds, Damp, Greater Heights

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14344, Delphi Classics

topic: Health, Eye, Noses, Damp

Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma...

- Gary Snyder

topic: War, Cutting, Animal, Dandelions, Damp

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Boredom, Insulting, England, Damp

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

- Wilfred Owen

topic: Lying, Dark, Men, Bronze, Damp

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Sad, Fire, Water, Damp, Fire Department

Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

- James R Newman

source: James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

topic: Jobs, Adventure, Games, Damp, Delectable

I can't live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair it makes it so much bouncier. It gives you shampoo commercial hair and makes your blowout so much better.

- Shay Mitchell

topic: Blow, Roots, Hair, Damp, Blowouts

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: War, Enemy Of Progress, History, Damp

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