Top 304 Mist Quotes & Sayings

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out.

A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

His words are nothing more than mist and sunshine, impossible to hold down.

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

I've always liked 'Mist In The Meadow.'

The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

The Osage have this lovely phrase: 'Travelers in the Mist.' It was the term for part of an Osage clan that would take the lead whenever the tribe was venturing into unfamiliar realms. And, in a way, we are all travelers in the mist. The challenge is that, as writers, we sometimes want to ignore this murkiness, or we want to write around it.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains.

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .

and i walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappaering like that, so simply, made me so happy

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

Rosewater & Glycerin spray is amazing as a mist. I get it at health food stores. It smells good and is really hydrating.

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.