Purple Quotes

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

“...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the soft pink and purples
of spring
and summer blue
and so many others
without you.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

“Purple is the last of the rainbow colors, so it means I will love and trust u for a long time”
― kim taehyung

“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”
― Victoria Finlay

“I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building.
Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.”
― Jim Benton, Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers

“Everything changes when a man becomes purple”
― Charlie McDonnell

“Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.”
― Amanda Hocking, Wisdom

“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.”
― Kimberly Novosel, Loved

“I am captivated by the beautiful colors of Fall,
Show me,show me,
Show me All!
Orange, yellow, purple, reddish-brown,
And the rustling of the leaves as they fall to the ground.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Rachael could see the lavender fields from where they sat at the kitchen table. They stretched in a purple haze over the landscape, the bright sunshine washing over them. The mauve complimented the blue-grey of the Australian bush in the far distance.”
― Ellen Read, Broken

“She dreamt in shades of amethyst, drinking the deep purple elixir in ballads of wood nymphs, tiptoeing by elves that hid in the veiled alcoves of trees and spinning past garden faeries laughing.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers

“This is the Los Angeles Lakers of sunsets. Purple and yellow, it reminds me of Larry Bird.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“Listen, God love everything you love--and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.
You saying God vain? I ast.
Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
What it do when it pissed off? I ast.
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Purple: my favourite colour, why? It was the colour of the flowers on my Nanna's dishes and I loved her tea cake; because violet's smell like love, because it looks like velvet... because... bruises. It is the dark that grows into midnight and the dawn that rises into warmth.”
― April S. Rolfe

“Whispers of amethyst meadows
Where a phoenix once cried.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers

“No, he was silver and amber, starlings and deep, deep purple skies of the night.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers

“That powerful PURPLE hue to my fave vintage beverages is a key unlocking the transformational depth of its flavor to its berry last drinkable drop.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“LOVELY AUTUMN

Sitting by a cozy fireplace,
Watching the leaves fall to the ground,
Orange, yellow, red, purple, gold and brown.”
― Charmaine J Forde

“Instead of diving into the shadows of the forest, he was a tawny lightning bolt striking the edge of a clearing that would eventually be filled with bright purple blossoms. Violets first, then lupines that would make little crowns across the sweet-smelling milkweed, the summer ending with mounds of aster.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Twisted Tale Anthology

“You’re telling me a purple pecker is always a purple pecker? It doesn’t have other names?” Dane asks.

“Purple thunder,” Valen suggests.

“Purple pricks.” I bite my bottom lip to fight off a laugh.

“Purple dicks,” Dane says.

“Purple nurple.”

Rippley frowns. “Wait, that’s not right.”
― Rory Miles, Twilight Terrors

“Rose shook her head and dipped her brush into the Dusty Pink dollop on her palette, thinking it was so funny how heather the color was purple, but heather the plant was pink and yet looked remarkably like lavender, which was actually purple, and how beautiful the circle of life was. She slashed the canvas with bold pink strokes, making Heather look like a Renaissance painting of a romantic figure struck by arrows.”
― Goldy Moldavsky, Of Earthly Delights

“Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“...what does it mean for a man to hide one more thing when he has vanished completely?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“There was this time of morning that always gave me peace. I liked to call it the "Violet hour."
Not because it was my alone time, although it was, but because the light was the prettiest blue violet. It was the hour before the sun would rise, turning the pitch-black velvet night into the fresh blue brightness of day. It happened right before the world woke up and gave me the slice of the morning to really think, or pray, or problem-solve.”
― Victoria Benton Frank, The Violet Hour

“I got presents as a kid. That stopped in my teens. The
small family gifts were gone. Replaced by dark humor
– "I got you the same thing as last year. But purple.”
― Damon Thomas, Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“We went for a walk on College Street and popped into Coco's for a snack. There, I revealed my future, much like the exquisitely layered flavors of our slice of earl grey, plum and lavender buttercream cake.”
― Amy Rosen, Off Menu

“The pistachio rose white chocolate bar was meant to represent Adeena's Pakistani background while the Mexican hot chocolate bar was for Elena's Mexican heritage (shocker). I wanted something simple and decadent for my Filipino chocolate representation, so Hana created white chocolate and milk chocolate versions of ube truffles. The subtle earthy vanilla tones of the purple yam paired well with both types of chocolate, and the beautiful violet color drew your eyes to the small spheres.”
― Mia P. Manansala, Death and Dinuguan

“As they drove onto the bridge that would bring them round to the north side of the station, the phrase "purple hills and crystal waters," an old poetic shorthand for Kyoto's scenic beauty, came to Takayuki's mind. The hilly Higashiyama area to the east was veiled in a purplish spring haze, and chances were good that the waters of the Kamogawa were looking pretty crystalline too.
Good old Rai San'yo, he thought, recalling the poet who'd coined the phrase.”
― Jesse Kirkwood, The Menu of Happiness

“Purple salvia: A flowering herb in the mint family with upright spikes of violet blooms whose earthy, herbal scent enhances concentration”
― Meg Donohue, The Memory Gardener