Damp Earth Quotes

#1. When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.

Natsuo Kirino

#2. The wind fluttering the pennants atop the outer keep and teasing Berenice's hair carried the loamy smell of damp earth, the fresh scent of the river, and, even now, a ghostly chemical astringency. The miasma wafted from the battlefield.

Ian Tregillis

#3. [about a book lent by a crush]
Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in the book, my nose pressed up against the print. Could smell Sean on the pages, the lingering odours from his sportsbag. Man scent, liniment, damp earth.

Bob Condron

#4. I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, but now reclaimed by the wilderness.

Lisa Tuttle

#5. Also her perfume, which mingled with the crisp air off the lake below, creating an intoxicating mixture of damp earth and leaves and water and girl. Not woman, in Sully's opinion. Girl.

Richard Russo

#6. There was something unbearable about the damp, dark earth closing over a coffin and the still, empty flesh that was inside. She had attended a hundred funerals, but when you really loved someone there was something too final about a burial. Something brutal.

Sara Sheridan

#7. I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

Henrik Fisker

#8. Men's supply of passion, she knew from long experience, was easily depleted. Though they might threaten to move earth and heaven too, half an hour later their boasts would be damp sheets and resentment.

Clive Barker

#9. I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

Brian Selznick

#10. What are you?" I rasped.
It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

Kim Harrison

#11. We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" [Revelation 3:8 KJV].

Billy Graham

#12. Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one,
A few feet of cold earth, when life is done;
A stone at the head, a stone at the feet,
A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat;
Rank grass over head, and damp clay around,
Brave lodgings for one, these, in holy ground!

Charles Dickens

#13. I lie flat, the damp air above me like a lid. Like earth. I wish it would rain. Better still, a thunderstorm, black clouds, lightning, ear-splitting sound.

Margaret Atwood

#14. I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Television and so on,

Anthony Bourdain

#15. Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Samuel Butler

#16. I'd been preparing myself to apologize. Forgive and forget, as Mom says. "Fuck you," I said.

Tara Kelly

#17. There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

John Steinbeck