Top 67 Pane Quotes
#1. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
#2. Without 'tis autumn, the wind beats on the pane
With heavy drops, the leaves high upwards sweep.
You take old letters from a crumpled heap,
And in one hour have lived your life again.
Mihai Eminescu
#3. Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
George Orwell
#4. Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn't get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the encounter with its three-dimensionality.
Ben Lerner
#5. She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.
John Lennon
#6. Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.
Ken Scott
#7. December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory ...
John Geddes
#8. The moon is the lamp he paints by; His canvas the window pane; His brush is a frozen snowflake; Jack Frost the artist's name.
C.C. Long
#9. There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
Dorothy Parker
#10. Girls fascinate in different ways. Try 'em one day. Tapped on the pane, and asked in French if she'd save my life by falling in love with me.
David Mitchell
#11. It had been a month before then that I'd sat on the bathroom floor and now it was back, the feeling that I was watching life through a thick pane of glass and that, whatever was out there, I wasn't designed for it.
T.R. Richmond
#12. Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.
Simone Weil
#13. This is the way it is with me, always looking in or looking out, a chilly pane of glass between me and a remote and longed-for world.
John Banville
#14. Secrets are my profession. I know them inside and out. What separates me from someone I'm lying to isn't the lie. It's that I know I'm lying. It's a pane of glass---they can't see it, but I don't forget it's there.
Rose Lerner
#15. Lust is like a robin attacking his reflection in a pane of glass again and again.
Leslie Daniels
#16. I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
Tracy Kidder
#17. She sat at the window of the train, her head thrown back, one leg stretched across to the empty seat before her. The window frame trembled with the speed of the motion, the pane hung over empty darkness, and dots of light slashed across the glass as luminous streaks, once in a while.
Ayn Rand
#18. Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
James Whistler
#19. Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
Jules Renard
#20. In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
Robert Breault
#21. Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
George Orwell
#22. And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me.
Meg Rosoff
#23. Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.
Carol Shields
#24. The house might, in fact, have passed for the world's largest rosebush if here and there a pane of glass had not gleamed and a few dark shingles showed beneath the rose leaves. Two chimneys and a row of gables stuck timid snouts out along the roof line.
Jane Louise Curry
#25. Love is like a pane of glass.. It can take harsh beatings from the weather around it ... But if it gets hit in the right place it shatters.. And when you try to pick it up ... You end up getting cut.
Tyler Hoyt
#26. I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house.
Linda Leigh Hargrove
#27. When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.
Celia Thaxter
#29. Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
Wei Wu Wei
#30. Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes ...
Emily Bronte
#31. My heart is a field of lilies blooming under a pane of glass, pitter-pattering to life like a rush of raindrops.
Tahereh Mafi
#32. It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Bill Bryson
#33. Only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane ...
John Geddes
#34. I looked to the window. Patch was gone, but a single black feather was pressed to the outer pane, held in place by last night's rain. Or angel magic.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#35. The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#36. I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.
Catherynne M Valente
#37. Faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#38. Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day:
something white in a high window - not a face,
but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wings
against the pane in the boarded-up house.
Zoe Brigley
#39. I follow his eyes to the pane of glass separating us from reality and I wait for his lips to part; I wait to listen to him speak . And then I try to pay attention as his words bounce around in the haze of my head, fogging my senses, misting my eyes, clouding my concentration.
Tahereh Mafi
#40. TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
Jack Dorsey
#41. Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.
Neel Mukherjee
#42. Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back!
Charles Dickens
#43. Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.
Robin McKinley
#44. The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.
Allie Burke
#45. What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy
#46. All day the darkness and the cold
Upon my heart have lain
Like shadows on the winter sky
Like frost upon the pane
John Greenleaf Whittier
#47. It's on the field, it's on the pane, it's in the sky - beauty; and I can't get at it; I can't have it - I, she seemed to add, with that little clutch of the hand which was so characteristic, who adore it so passionately, would give the whole world to possess it!
Virginia Woolf
#48. October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Room
Victor Hugo
#49. One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
Daniil Kharms
#50. Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.
Madeleine Brent
#51. Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.
Peter Senge
#52. Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.
Phyllis Diller
#53. My eyes flick up to the pane of glass punched into the wall. Pinks and reds filter into the room and I know it's the start of a new beginning. The start of the same end. Another day.
Tahereh Mafi
#54. pane. "I can see what's left of our old place from
K.B. Jensen
#55. But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.
Eminem
#56. She remembered perching on the sill of her bedroom window with the pane opened a crack so she could let the winter in, and she remembered letting it sting her nose and wash over her until she was shivering and blue.
Meagan Spooner
#57. For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.
Ken Follett
#58. A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?
Richard Henry Stoddard
#59. THE AIR IN THE ROOM TASTES STERILE. THE LINGERING scent of bleach is mixing with the fresh white paint on the walls, and I wish my teacher would open the window to let in a breeze. But we're on the third floor so the pane is sealed shut - just in case anyone gets the urge to jump. I
Suzanne Young
#60. Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
W. Eugene Smith
#61. Loneliness cannot be reassured by proportion. Even friendship would have seemed to Pritchard a feast behind a pane of glass; even the smallest charity would have wet his lip, and left him wanting.
Eleanor Catton
#62. I press my palm to the small pane of glass and feel the cold clasp my hand in a familiar embrace. We are both alone, both existing as the absence of something else.
Tahereh Mafi
#63. The stars twinkled high above and reflected onto the cold window. I blew on the frosty glass and watched my breath fog up. I traced my initials across the cold glass, the condensation trickling down the pane.
Erica Sehyun Song
#64. When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
Alfred Austin
#65. The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.
John Keats
#66. The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.
Cassandra Clare
#67. I walked up to the window, raised my palm and pressed it against the pane. It left a bloodied handprint. Through the red shape - my red flag, my riot sign - I could see Neil staring at me.
Shirley Marr
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