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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. -- John Donne
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy. -- Ian Anderson
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains. -- Du Fu
I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England. -- Tracie Peterson
I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled up on top in a mess. -- Georgia May Jagger
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. -- George Eliot
Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow. -- Chevy Stevens
My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation. -- Laurie Graham
When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks. -- John Burnside
I can't live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair it makes it so much bouncier. It gives you shampoo commercial hair and makes your blowout so much better. -- Shay Mitchell
One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. -- Derek Jacobi
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. -- Edvard Munch
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body! -- Charles Dickens
Hate California--it's cold and it's damp. -- Lorenz Hart
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. -- Khaled Hosseini
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach. -- Patricia Briggs
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. -- Heinrich Heine
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. -- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. -- John Steinbeck
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. -- T. S. Eliot
Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself. -- Mary Szybist
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. -- John Milton
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. -- Walt Whitman
Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room. -- William Butler Yeats
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. -- Charlotte Bronte
The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp. -- Amelia Earhart
When I wake up, my pillow's cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea. -- Haruki Murakami
We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet. -- Molly Ivins
Outlines of dead logs I hauled away remained impressed on the damp earth, scarring the ground with their funereal shapes. -- Tash Aw
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. -- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. -- Neil Gaiman
Down the hill I went, and then,I forgot the ways of men,For night-scents, heady and damp and coolWakened ecstasy -- Sara Teasdale
I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. -- Margaret Atwood
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. -- Vera Brittain
i feel the spring breeze rufflingthe new-hatched damp of my unfurlingfeathers; i see with eyes bleary from egg-darkthe shell clinging sticky to my screamingbeak. -- Beth Morey
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp... -- James Russell Lowell
It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. -- Michael Chabon
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! -- George Eliot
She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. -- George R. R. Martin
Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did! -- Ai Qing
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. -- William Wordsworth
Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly. -- Garrison Keillor
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. -- Compton Mackenzie
I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled up on top in a mess. -- Georgia May Jagger
I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.' Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out.' I reply -- Suzanne Collins
Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true. -- Sylvia Day
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. -- Wilfred Owen
A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers. -- Frank Herbert
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. -- Charles Dickens
They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed. -- Rachel Caine
The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body. -- Roger Scruton
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life. -- John Milton
Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall. -- Richard Hugo
She touched him everywhere she could reach. The rounded hardness of his biceps and chest, the ripped contours of his back, his thick, damp hair, until touching with his hands wasn't enough. -- Melissa Cutler
Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness. -- Lisa Belkin
The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark. -- Steven Brust
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland. -- Anne Frank
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So the moment he walks in the door I snap, I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.Cinna just smilesHad a damp morning?You could wring me out, I reply. -- Suzanne Collins
There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture. -- Sheridan Morley
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When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy. -- Italo Calvino
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it. -- Terry Pratchett

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