“The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.”
William Sharp (writer) (1855–1905) Scottish writer
Longing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Summer fog. It leached all color and substance from the world, leaving only grays. Lead gray tombstone gray cobweb gray ash gray snot gray dust gray corpse gray. It was unheard-of that there be fog at this time of the year, late August. So it had to be another portent — as dire a one as the death of the One-Handed Warrior. There were many who said that the fog had its origin in the supercooled ashes of the hero: each molecule of his scattered body accreting water vapor, each tiny relic drawing to itself the air's own tears to fashion this wide-spreading shroud over the Many-Colored Land.”
The Adversary (Houghton Mifflin, 1984), ISBN 0-395-34410-7, p. 19 (opening lines of chapter 1)
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Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) painter from the Netherlands
(version in original Dutch / citaat van Bilders' brief, in het Nederlands:) ..niet minder bemin ik toch de graauwe wateren van mijn Holland, hunne ernstige, eenigsinds droeve kleur, die zoo goed overeenkomt met de even grijze luchten en dampen, dier er overeen hangen.<br>as cited in The land of Mauve: utopia or a reality? / Het land van Mauve: utopie of werkelijkheid? https://www.rug.nl/research/kenniscentrumlandschap/mscripties/christina_vlasma-het_land_van_mauve-masterscriptie.pdf; master-scriptie by Christina van Staats-Vlasma; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, La Broquerie, Manitoba Canada, Nov. 2010, p. 97 <br class="br">undated quotes
“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Donald Judd (1928–1994) artist
Donald Judd (1974), as quoted in: Joseph J. Rishel et al. (2009) Cézanne and beyond. p. 94: Talking about the work of Cezanne.
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Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Fresco (2000), Chapter 12, p. 125
“In the night all cats are gray.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“Rise in the presence of a gray head.”
Adolph Freiherr Knigge book Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Vor einem grauen Haupte sollst du aufstehen!
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
