Quotes About A Feather In The Wind

#1. When we are able to let go of the worry, let it float away like a feather in the wind, we free ourselves of further burden and open the door to all that is right for us.

Charles F. Glassman

#2. Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain

#3. Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

Li Bai

#4. Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.

Anthony Liccione

#5. Even so long after sunset, the sky in the west was touched with feather-strokes of crimson and black. The wind was blowing from the east, which meant that even in the middle of the city you could breathe in desert: sand and grit, cactus and coyotes, the burning scent of sage.

Cassandra Clare

#6. I tell my girls when you have done everything humanly possible, when you have fought with everything in you for something you truly believe in and it is still out of reach, it's time to become a feather. Let the wind guide you for awhile ...

Susan Goldsmith

#7. Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.

Richard Powers

#8. If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#9. Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -
Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind

Dante Alighieri

#10. Life isn't but a feather floating in the wind. One second it's in your grasp, next second, it's floating high, wondering what is to come.

William Shakespeare

#11. Wings - -vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.

Laini Taylor

#12. Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

Mark Van Doren

#13. My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

Francis Quarles

#14. I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late ... ' she looked a me gravely, 'you get a coin instead.

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away

Jessica Sorensen

#16. My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

T. S. Eliot

#17. I am a feather for each wind that blows

William Shakespeare