Top 38 Quotes About Paler
#1. Day by day his sister grew
Paler with the wound
She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it
Each day with her blue Breton jacket.
- from Life After Death
Ted Hughes
#2. 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
#3. To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Saint Augustine
#4. He had a fund of small talk, a pleasant voice, a caressing glance and his moustache was irresistible. Crisp and curly, it curved charmingly over his lip, fair with auburn tints, slightly paler where it bristled at the ends.
Guy De Maupassant
#5. In the water is a woman of such beauty that her skin is paler than the white marble and her hair is darker than the night skies. He falls in love with her at once, and she with him, and he takes her to the castle and makes her his wife.
Philippa Gregory
#6. I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#7. Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight's desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.
Richard Powers
#8. The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in
the lamplight - paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.
Cassandra Clare
#9. Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter's day.
St John Morris
#11. So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.
Nick Hornby
#12. I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
Herman Melville
#13. Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#14. I stare at him and the way his clothes make his face look paler and his eyes two shades darker than when I last saw him. He doesn't seem real. How can a boy look so magical and interesting, yet utterly terrifying at the same time?
Beckie Stevenson
#15. Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.
Kristan Higgins
#16. Though no one else noticed this, he thought his shadow on the ground was paler, lighter, than that of other people.
Haruki Murakami
#17. After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.
Adele Rose
#18. The air became colder still and everything became paler
Roald Dahl
#19. How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.
Peter Heller
#20. Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
Willa Cather
#21. Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.
Charles Nodier
#22. In the dim light of the closed bar, he thought at first it was silver, but as he reached inside and held it up, he saw that it was a gleaming white, so dazzling he knew he had never properly seen the color white before, only paler, inferior shades.
Michael Montoure
#23. Hades took off his helm. His complexion was even paler than usual. He had a bad case of helmet hair. He was sweating and nervous and blinking like he had something in his eyes. "I am Hades," he said in a squeaky voice. "I love you.
Rick Riordan
#24. Lucas went even paler. "Then you're on the track to suicide," he whispered. "Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You're already dead.
Lilith Saintcrow
#25. Bug, meanwhile, had learned at Marshtown that might made right, and he got older and paler, his head downcast like a nodding flower that expects itself to be cut at any moment.
William T. Vollmann
#26. There's a head inside the ball?" Surefire turned a shade paler along the edges of her face paint.
"It is good," Coatl responded. "Makes the ball lighter, bounce farther."
"You always want to get a head in the game," Raven added.
J.T. Bock
#27. I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.
Ilona Andrews
#28. After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
Octavian Paler
#29. We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
Octavian Paler
#30. The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
Octavian Paler
#31. The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler
#32. Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.
Octavian Paler
#33. A life without love is like a year without spring.
Octavian Paler
#35. Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain
Octavian Paler
#36. When love, that dandelion fluff, that always comes and goes with the first wind thread, will pass on to your door, then you will know you met me ...
Octavian Paler
#37. There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...
Octavian Paler
#38. The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Octavian Paler
