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Mist is a cool natural event. It’s made of tiny water drops hanging in the air creating a cloud-like effect close to the ground.
Writers love using mist in their work. It sets the scene for different moods like a cloudy morning or changing emotions.
Dive into these mist quotes and sayings; you might find something that really speaks to you.
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Mist Quotes
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? ~ Dodie Smith.
Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return. ~ Kamand Kajouri.
In nature nothing exists alone. ~ Rachel Carson.
Mist around a mountain: all reality is there. ~ Marty Rubin.
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. ~ Carl Sandburg.
You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted. ~ J.R. Ward.
I could be the ceaseless mist that fogs your colourless eyes when you’re lost in your universes. ~ Moonshine Noire.
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. ~ Luo Guanzhong.
They sicken of the calm who know the storm. ~ Dorothy Parker.
Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray. ~ John Calvin
I walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappearing like that, so simply, made me so happy. ~ Jay Asher.
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Best Mist Quotes
Of what is’t fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. ~ John Webster.
I watched the land for as long as I could until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind – unchanged, mysterious and beautiful. ~ Aimee Friedman.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~ Carl Reiner.
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. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain –Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. ~ Robert Hass
and i walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappearing like that, so simply, made me so happy ~ Jay Asher
Winter is not here yet. There’s a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. ~ Emily Bronte.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~ E.L Doctorow.
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. ~ Miguel de Unamuno.
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow ~ Joseph Conrad
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. ~ W. H. Auden
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. ~ Thomas Hood Fall.
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. ~ Neil Gaiman.
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Morning Mist Quotes
Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range. ~ Li Bai.
Nothing lives long, Only the earth and mountains. ~ Dee Brown.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~ Julien Green.
The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist. ~ Rabindranath Tagore.
A vital breath of more ethereal air. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Prayer clears the mist
The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves. ~ Neil Gaiman
Courage to me means plowing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things…My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy’ll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I’ve got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices. ~ Erin Bow.
That particular April day was strange and foggy, blurring spaces between the trees and blanketing all of Ellingham in a milky mist. Dottie decided that the weather lent itself to a mystery. ~ Maureen Johnson.
There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep. ~ Robert Frost.
When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. ~ Aimee Friedman.
The mists of nostalgia color memory. ~ Ken Tucker.
Icy pillars of serenity, spun from airy mist, entered my quiet vision in echoes of worlds unknown. ~ Gina Marinello Sweeney.
The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring. ~ Edith Wharton.
Faith means walking on the waters. ~ Julien Green.
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Beautiful Mist Quotes
and brings back peace to the Soul . . . ~ Rumi
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. ~ Julien Green.
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. ~ George R. R. Martin
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. ~ John Gay
So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage. ~ Chief White Eagle
Courage to me means plowing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. ~ F. Scott Fitzerald.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. ~ Roald Amundsen.
The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could. ~ Erin Bow.
When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is. ~ Berthold Auerbach.
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought. ~ Dorothy Richardson
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca.
Three foggy mornings and one rainy day. Will rot the best birch fence a man can build. ~ Robert Frost.
The spirit-world around this world of sense
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist. ~ Norman Mailer.
Mist in the morning is Earth’s morning breath. ~ Nanette L. Avery.
When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers’ imaginative powers, increasing expectation –like a veiled girl. Generally, the eye and the imagination are more readily drawn by nebulous distance than by what is perfectly plain for all to see ~ Caspar David Friedrich
I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight. ~ Charles Baudelaire
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it. ~ Robert E. Howard.
Lovely Mist Quotes
The snow is falling like a delicate rain of frozen mist ~ Jazz Feylynn.
Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
A backlit mist bathed the Cascade foothills in silver as Justin and I pledged our love before a justice of the peace. ~ Aspen Matis.
Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert. ~ Haruki Murakami.
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances. ~ Charles Dickens.
When you walk in the mist, you get wet. ~ Dogen
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh. ~ Rachel Carson.
As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this. ~ Hal Borland.
Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take. ~ Edvard Grieg.
I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day approached the completion of its first half) was becoming damp and misty. ~ Umberto Eco.
Thunder-storms are as much our friends as the sunshine. ~ Criss Jami
Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze? ~ Robert Frost
You make autumn mist taste like champagne and turn winter rain into the elixir of life itself. ~ Sanober Khan.
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. ~ Oscar Wilde.
One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog. ~ Milarepa.
The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn. ~ Graham Joyce.
It is as if, he thought, the mist represents my life outside of here and now, and that anything else is still out there, to be discovered, or not. ~ Unknown
My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. ~ Amy Tan
His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. ~ J R.R Tolkien.
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. ~ Sigurd F. Olson.
Quotes about Mist
Going to the mountains is like going home. ~ John Muir.
Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis. ~ Aimee Friedman.
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight, and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees. ~ Edwin Way Teale
May every soul that touches mine – be it the slightest contact – get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists – to make this life worthwhile. ~ George Eliot
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirely. ~ Julien Green.
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. ~ Berthold Auerbach
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. ~ Henry David Thoreau
To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster. ~ Criss Jami.
A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam. ~ John Millington Synge.
Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow. ~ Joseph Conrad.
Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul ~ Rumi.
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. ~ Jane Austen
When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers’ imaginative powers, increasing expectation. ~ Casper David Friedrich.
The first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep. ~ Noam Shpancer.
Live free, child of the mist,-and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist. ~ Henry David Thoreau.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. ~ John Keats.
Tendrils of mist slithered over the forest floor, around the base of trees. ~ Robert Liparulo.
Inspiring Mist Quotes
As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will. ~ Leonard Cohen.
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist. ~ Benedict Joseph Labre.
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist. ~ Jane Addams
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain’s tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense
There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain. ~ Robert Hass.
Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight, and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails. ~ Edwin Way Teale.
When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. ~ Rachel Carson.
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ~ Gene Wolfe
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. ~ Robert Motherwell.
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls. ~ Mervyn Peake.
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shorebirds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be. ~ Rachel Carson
The dawn came – not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter coloring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light. ~ Elizabeth Goudge.
