quotations about the cold
Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
attributed, Bibliotopia, Or, Mr. Gilbar's Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts
The cold is like some terrible entity in the room, sucking all warmth and life.
FRANCESCA DE STEFANO
"Pain and Pleasure in Liguria"
Here I stand
In the light of day!
Let the storm rage on!
The cold never bothered me anyway!
KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ & ROBERT LOPEZ
"Let It Go", Frozen
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The Spanish Student
It's too cold outside for angels to fly.
ED SHEERAN
"The A Team"
One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
PAUL THEROUX
The Old Patagonian Express
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
BILL WATTERSON
Calvin and Hobbes
The presence of the Iriquois in the night is very annoying and a little frightening, but it is the intensity of the cold that preoccupies me. Cold like this did not exist in France. It's so cold that my breath makes a frost covering on my fur blanket and woolen cloak; so cold that a tear on my cheek freezes before it can fall: so cold that our bread freezes solid: so cold that my nose, finger and ear tips are numb most of the time. And we cannot make fires big enough to warm us because, despite the endless forest that surrounds us, we do not have enough firewood.
JANET DOWLER
Milk and Honey, War and Waste
Women in my family have always made quilts. It is almost always winter work, the work of subzero nights when everything must stay interior because the cold will brook no outside work and little error.
ANNE-MARIE OOMEN
House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education
I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
Going home, where the New York City winters aren't bleedin' me.
PAUL SIMON
The Boxer
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
Tragic Sense of Life
He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart.
GASTON LEROUX
The Phantom of the Opera
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
HORACE TRAUBEL
attributed, Quote Unquote
The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The Fellowship of the Ring
It was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLY WINTERS
The New York Times, April 29, 1956
This cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The Diary of Antoine Roquentin
Why ... it wuz so cold that winter that even HOT water froze! While it wuz still boilin' on the stove. And the ice that the boilin' water made wuz too hot to touch. Unless ya had gloves on. That winter it wuz so cold even FlRE froze solid! The flames inside the lanterns froze up and ya couldn't blow 'em out. So ya had to take the frozen flames out of the lanterns and dig a hole and BURY 'em! So they wouldn't cause forest fires when they thawed out in the spring!
WIL DENSON
Paul Bunyan and The Hard Winter
Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from--this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.
LAUREN OLIVER
Delirium
The cold hurt my lungs, and the harsh wind beating against my skin caused me to shake. I wondered if humans ever went outside. They must have been insane if they did. Inhaling was difficult, at first. And this was a concern. After all, inhaling really was one of the most important requirements of being a human.
MATT HAIG
The Humans