Warmness

Warmness is the state of being warm.

Quote

• Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes;
  Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
  • Thomas Gray, The Bard (1757), I. 3. lines 39-40.

• Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it.
  • Vincent van Gogh, Letter no. 155 (June 1880), published in the online version of "Vincent van Gogh – The Letters; The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition". Retrieved 29 July 2014.

• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men.
  • Joyce Kilmer in "The Proud Poet" in Main Street and Other Poems (1917).

• The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
  • Jean Paul, as reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 105.

• Hold somebody's hand and feel its warmth. Gram per gram, it converts 10 000 times more energy per second than the sun. You find this hard to believe? Here are the numbers: an average human weighs 70 kilograms and consumes about 12 600 kilojoules/day; that makes about 2 millijoules/gram.second, or 2 milliwatts/gram. For the sun it's a miserable 0.2 microjoules/gram.second. Some bacteria, such as the soil bacterium "Azotobacter" convert as much as 10 joules/gram.second, outperforming the sun by a factor 50 million. I am warm because inside each of my body cells there are dozens, hundreds or even thousands of mitochondria that burn the food I eat.
  • Gottfried Schatz, "The tragic matter", Jeff's View on Science and Scientists (2006), p. 43, ISBN 978-0-444-52133-0, ISBN 0-444-52133-X

• In the warm shadow of her loveliness;—
  He kissed her with his beams.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Witch of Atlas, Stanza 2. As reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

See also

• Fire
• Kindness
• Global warming