Cold Mountain Quotes

#1. People ask the way to Cold Mountain Roads do not go through Summer arrives yet the ice has not melted Though the sun is out it's foggy and dim How did I arrive here? My mind and yours are not the same When our minds are one You will be here too

Hanshan

#2. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by

Hanshan

#3. This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.

Stephen King

#4. Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge - the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.

Gary Snyder

#5. Spring water is pure in an emerald stream
moonlight is white on Cold Mountain
silence thoughts and the spirit becomes clear
focus on emptiness and the world grows still

Han-shan

#6. He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him." Ruby about her dad in "Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

#7. When men see Han-shan
They all say he's crazy
And not much to look at -
Dressed in rags and hides.
They don't get what I say
And I don't talk their language.
All I can say to those I meet:
Try and make it to Cold Mountain.

Gary Snyder

#8. Cold Mountain Son
Forever not change
I live alone
Beyond life death

Hanshan

#9. I wanted a good place to settle:
Cold Mountain would be safe.
Light wind in a hidden pine -
Listen close - the sound gets better.
Under it a gray haired man
Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao.
For ten years I havn't gone back home
I've even forgotten the way by which I came.

Gary Snyder

#10. I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

Jerry Garcia

#11. Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

Hanshan

#12. If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again

Hanshan

#13. Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

Anthony Minghella

#14. Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

Jay Leno

#15. Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

Hanshan

#16. Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs

Hanshan

#17. How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

Hanshan

#18. I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

Hanshan

#19. No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Anthony Minghella

#20. I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

Charles Frazier

#21. Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#22. When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.

David Nicholls

#23. Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

W. H. Auden

#24. There is a Precious Mountain
Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
A cold moon rises through the pines
Layer upon layer of bright clouds
How many towering peaks?
How many wandering miles?
The valley streams run clear
Happiness forever!

Hanshan

#25. If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two, three years old, how to look for the way, the signs of the path, the landmarks, then it gets lost in the mountain, doesn't it? And dies in the night, in the cold.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

John Milton

#27. It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#28. He, the most privileged, loved and spoiled of all creatures did not know how to cope with so much rage, hate and pain. His screams echoed through the belly of the mountain. His intense wailing attempted to pierce through the cold heart of his punisher without success.

Jamie Le Fay

#29. Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. "Nothing holds me here.

Kiersten White

#30. The ship's lines were an elegant array of pure geometry, essentially nothing more than a series of cubes suspended within a curved plane.

Dan Lopez

#31. Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret ... How do we guard
or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against
our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

Andy Stanley

#32. That old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong ..

Annie Proulx

#33. Shut the door behind you. Or don't. I don't give a fuck. But if I don't leave now, I'm going to have to explain to Elise why I killed you, and I'd rather talk about her class schedule." -

J.R. Ward

#34. You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying." - Radiance

Catherynne M Valente

#35. Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.

Walter De La Mare

#36. Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell

#37. It was one of those Hobart spring nights, cold as charity, snow coming down hard on the mountain, the harbour a lather, sleet slapping and scratching at windows and tin roofs like a wild drunk who's been locked out.

Richard Flanagan

#38. They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#39. She perched on the club chair he indicated. The leather was probably repelled by her cheap wool dress.

Sarah Jane Stratford

#40. You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

Ashton Kutcher