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Cold Wind Quotes

To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising very slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure it loomed over the Hill. For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing.
- J R R Tolkien

The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.
- Stefano Benni

So I stared out at that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.
- Ally Carter

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.
- Ally Carter

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

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

This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect.
- Alexander Mccall Smith

Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children make as they sleep, the sounds our animals make as they step carefully through our dreams and out the other side to polished floor and cold window. Sometimes I wait so long I become unsure if I am asleep, or awake, or dead.
- Steve Rasnic Tem

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