Wind Blown Quotes

#1. Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

Kelsang Gyatso

#2. O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Ada Cambridge

#3. And not there, not there, not there,
Your laughing face and your wind-blown hair
Leave not even a ghost in the garden.

Winifred Holtby

#4. Winds shook me apart piecemeal, flung a bone here, a bone there. My eyes became snow, my hair turned to ice; I heard it chime against my shoulders like wind-blown glass. If I spoke, words would fall from me like snow, pour out of me like black wind.

Patricia A. McKillip

#5. This fifth and final sun will die,
Like every sun before
But for a moment we laughed in its light,
Like wind-blown petals
Sparkling near an exile's campfire
Before the flames take them.

David Bowles

#6. Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

William J. Harris

#7. the mall crowds swaying like wind-blown grass, a field of flesh shot through with sudden eddies of need and gratification

William Gibson

#8. The hillside before them blurred, as if a curtain of wind-blown sand rose before it. A churning wind roiled through this strange mist.

Steven Erikson

#9. The schoolhouse, on this sunlit morning, has begun to take on the scent of girls with wind-blown hair, with seeds in their pockets, with road-hardened feet.

Karen Hesse

#10. All of Creation's a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.

William Shakespeare

#11. Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose.

Orson Scott Card

#12. The people in my life were like the BandAids that had blown away in the desert wind that first day on the trail. They scattered and then they were gone.

Cheryl Strayed

#13. The others were far scattered, like leaves blown by the wild wind.

George R R Martin

#14. A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

Frank O'Connor

#15. Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

Hugo Black

#16. Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

Jimi Hendrix

#17. 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

#18. She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.

Dave McKean

#19. Wind warns November's done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

Sylvia Plath

#20. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.

D.L. Moody

#21. It had started with a storm, and in a way, that storm had never ended. Nina had blown into his life with the wind and rain and set his world spinning. He'd been off balance ever since.

Leigh Bardugo

#22. Once the seed of love peneterates deep down and takes its root, it cannot be blown away, even by the immortal gusts of wind!

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#23. ... you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.

Daphne Du Maurier

#24. Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Rumi

#25. I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive. The surprise is how good the wind feels on my face as I fall. And the other surprise is that I ever rise at all

Annie Dillard

#26. Every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.

Jandy Nelson

#27. Is it as plainly in our living shown,
By which way the wind hath blown?

Adelaide Crapsey

#28. I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. He

Khaled Hosseini

#29. Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

Saint Basil

#30. I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.

Haruki Murakami

#31. Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.

Hugh Kingsmill

#32. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black.

George Orwell

#33. Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

Tibullus

#34. His soul, it seemed to him, was more than empty. It was desiccated, reduced to the powder of its substance and now in danger of being blown away by the first puff of the dawn wind that presaged the sun.

Randy Attwood

#35. Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

George Mackay Brown

#36. Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

Saint Francis De Sales

#37. I would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.

Arthur Golden

#38. Your gentle eyes escape to the moon;
Shooting stars in the rain blown by the wind.I have to learn to swim in my tears.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#39. Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain.

Ihab Hassan

#40. You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

Rumi

#41. Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house?
Refugees don't exist.
Only blown away people exist,
people blown by the wind
all over the world.

Ad De Bont

#42. Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaf, which is blown and is turning around through the air, and wavers, and tumbles to the ground. But others, a few, are like stars, they go on a fixed course, no wind reaches them, in themselves they have their law and their course

Hermann Hesse

#43. I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

Gerry Abbey

#44. War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain.

Bill Carter

#45. I have no past
the steps have disappeared
the wind has blown them away.

James Kavanaugh

#46. Like the dandelion clocks, all blown and dispersed on the wind, my life has evaporated into the emptiness of a dream; for which I blame my betrayer, that dubious stranger wearing the mask of a once-loved face.

Anna Kavan

#47. It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

Richard Branson

#48. But the scent of the good is blown against the wind:
A good man perfumes all directions.

Anonymous

#49. A few strands of his long, dark hair had been caught by the wind and blown against his face. Without thinking, she reached up and smoothed the strands away from his skin, wishing she could smooth away the pain etched there.

Kiki Hamilton

#50. Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.

Gautama Buddha

#51. We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision

Muhammad Asad

#52. The second rector of [St. John's in] Providence was blown out of church one Sunday by 'an extraordinary gust of wind,' and the people, welcoming this ejection as an act of heaven, refused to let him in again.

George Hodges

#53. She had thrown away twenty years of her life like a handful of old rags, but the wind had blown them back again, and dressed her in the old uniform.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#54. I wish I could close my eyes and be
blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.

Lauren Oliver

#55. A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

Richard Kinder

#56. Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#57. A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

#58. How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

Thomas Watson

#59. My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

Derek Jacobi

#60. Love is no hot-house flower,
but a wild plant, born of a wet night,
born of an hour of sunshine; sprung
from wild seed, blown along the road
by a
wild wind.

John Galsworthy

#61. The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.

Oscar Wilde

#62. I sat silently, trying to imagine Pam blown away. I could do it, but the face I saw lighting up in surprise and wonder was a younger face. It had been quite a few years since I'd been able to generate that sort of wind.

Stephen King

#63. Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the air, before dissolving into sunlight.

Kimberly Cutter

#64. By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot. If blown off course for a moment by some adverse wind he will surely return again as by a secret bent of the soul.

A.W. Tozer

#65. She breathes in the cold air; pellets of blown ice whip against her face. The wind's getting up, as the TV said it would. Nonetheless there's something brisk about being out in the storm, something energizing: it whisks away the cobwebs, it makes you inhale. The

Margaret Atwood

#66. Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.

Ismail Kadare

#67. Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that's a blessing.

Rumi

#68. Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet!

Lonnie Dupre

#69. The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.

Nick Nolte

#70. Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable ... the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street ... by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

Hal Borland

#71. Chorus of women: [ ... ] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Aristophanes

#72. But the best I've known
Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
Of living men, and dies.

Rupert Brooke

#73. It seemed to him that he could hardly hear the sound of his own shrill voice: it was blown away from him by the willow-wind and drowned in a clamor of leaves, as soon as the words left his mouth. He felt desperate: lost and witless.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#74. A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

Frederick Lenz

#75. If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Vusi Mahlasela

#76. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

George William Russell

#77. As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Sarada Devi

#78. The wind pounced on them hard. It had blown some of the cloud away and stretched the rest across the sky like rags on a loom to make a rug. A blue and white and gray rug like that would b pretty, thought Arry. But how do I know that? Do I know it?

Pamela Dean

#79. The victims," he said, "looked like a field of timothy grass, blown flat by the wind and rain after a summer storm.

Anthony P. Hatch

#80. And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.'

Paul Simon

#81. The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the treas and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#82. I, too, await
The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

William Butler Yeats

#83. There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

John Le Carre

#84. Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.

Khalil Gibran

#85. Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...

Dante Alighieri

#86. The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Molefi Kete Asante

#87. If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out ... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter ... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.

Carlo Borromeo