Quotes about Melting
Now when Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in Benjamin looked and saw the troops melting away and scattering in every direction,
- 1 Samuel 14:16
darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,
- Job 6:16
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
- Job 24:19
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalm 22:14
This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
- Isaiah 19:1
Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.
- Ezekiel 24:11
She looked before she drank. Looking was part of drinking. why waste sensation, she seemed to ask, why waste a single drop that can be pressed out of this ripe, this melting, this adorable world? Then she drank. And the air round her became threaded with sensation.
- Virginia Woolf
I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage had redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him.
- Herman Melville
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…. Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
- Robert Frost
Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out the window.
- Alice Hoffman
The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.
- Richard Paul Evans
She smelled romantic, if he could claim romance as a scent, like a melting, sweet Alabama summer evening. The fragrance gathered in the hollow place between his heart and ribs.
- Rachel Hauck