Cold Quotes

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.


Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.

Let it rain on some days,
Let yourself shiver on some cold nights,
So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.

They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else-the cold, and where he'd go in it-was outside, for a while anyway.

I'd rather be not the light in your life
The bright day might make me obscure
I'd rather be the cold darkness
For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.

Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear

I could feel something cold stalking my heart. It was fear. They all begin this way, I thought, with pledges of love.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.

You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette’s fate.