"Cold Mountain" Quotes

How many in this church tonight believe the world would be a better place if women were penned up in hazel cages?

Expergefacite! Wake up, thou sleepers! says the preacher.

People wrote him off, but Ada never had. She walked him clean, and everything he ever planted came to life.

The line of men that had greeted Inman when he walked into camp all those weeks before now stood exposed to view on this open ground. He studied those faces. They never turned ghostly because he called their names.

Men by and large tell such stories better than women, but [Ruby] loved Inman. Poor girl, Ada thought. She has no idea what lurks in that man's heart.

She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off.

Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

But at some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Every piece of him was shouting, and he set out in search of a good honest war.

Fear holds a man down.