90 Fog Quotes For When Life Seems a Little Bleak
These fog quotes will remind you that even though life can get confusing and hard to manage sometimes, those moments do not last forever.
Fog is a weather phenomenon that occurs tiny water droplets or ice crystals become suspended in the air at or near the surface of the earth.
Fog, basically a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling a stratus cloud, is influenced by several factors.
These include nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions.
This shadowy, gloomy cloud is the reason there are so many metaphors about life and fog, referring to when life has got you down.
These fog quotes also explain why we talk about brain fog and confusion.
Fog makes a great addition to setting scenes in literature, whether it’s a horror story a drama.
There is just something unsettling about a dark and foggy night, that can really make a story.
Even writing these works can induce a bit of a foggy brain, as you will see in the fog quotes about writing and stories!
Beyond the realm of regular brain fog, there is the more serious mental illness of depression.
Keep reading for lots of fog quotes about depression and the mind in general.
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Fog quotes about what ‘fog is’
1. “Fog is a cloud close to land or water. People cannot see well in fog.” ― Helen Frost
2. “Fog is most common where water is plentiful and there is a cool surface to chill the air.” ― Steven L. Horstmeyer
3. “Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.” ― Om Malik
4. “I must go in. The fog is rising.” ― Emily Dickinson
Inspirational Fog quotes about love and life
5. “With a foggy mind, you see nothing but fog!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
6. “She was like the morning fog, mystical yet dangerous.” – Ajay Moses
7. “To understand the fog, it helps to first understand the cloud.” ― David Byrd
8. “Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.” ― Charles Bukowski
9. “Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves that all of life is not black and white.” ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
10. “The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.” ― Frank Wedekind
11. “When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.” ― Amit Ray
12. “If you want to see what the fog hides in itself, don’t wait for the fog to disperse! Instead of waiting for something to happen in this short life, do something immediately! Enter the fog!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
13. “Foggy road is a blessing because it is full of surprises and life is such a road! We are incredibly lucky that we all have an unknowable future!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
14. “The fog of life is provided as source of confusion to the mind so that we cannot rely on it and must turn to our feeling and intuitive selves.” ― Stephen Harrison
15. “Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can’t see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.” ― Frederick Lenz
16. “I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.” ― Ben Hecht
17. “Love feels like this fog. It slinks in from some hidden place and silently overtakes me. It seems so dense, but when I reach into it, there’s nothing of substance. Then, before too long, it simply vanishes. That’s my perception of love.” ― Alex Z. Moores
18. “Adversity is much like fog in our lives, and sometimes God will use fog of adversity to teach and direct us.” ― David Byrd
19. “Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
20. “The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.” ― Virginia Woolf
21. “Fog may be unpleasant, and traveling in fog can be hazardous, but breathing fog cannot harm you.” ― Michael Allaby
Fog quotes about writing, stories, and other arts
22. “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ― E. L. Doctorow
23. “Most of us live in a fog. It’s like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can’t figure out the story. We don’t know what part we’re supposed to play or what the plot is.” ― John Eldredge
24. “The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!” ― Bill Watterson
25. “Though they don’t always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you’ve got to turn the screw very, very slowly.” ― Susan Hill
26. “Why be in music, why write songs, if you can’t use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I’ve been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.” ― Rufus Wainwright
27. “I’m one of those writers who can’t talk about what they’re working on. The entire four years I was writing ‘House of Sand and Fog,’ my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.” ― Andre Dubus III
28. “I paint the fog – I think of its fresh moistness – its stillness – its mystery.” ― Douglas Lockwood
29. “I do so much music that it’s like a fog, and I can’t even remember all of it.” ― Yelawolf
Fog quotes about the mind and depression
30. “That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel
31. “I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.” ― Dan Gilroy
32. “This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they’re simply ‘happy pills’ that will wipe a person’s emotional slate clean. Used correctly, antidepressants can lift the fog of mental illness.” ― Andrew Shaffer
33. “The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can’t neither guess the future, neither change the past.” — Shams Tabrizi
34. “You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.” ― J.R. Ward
35. “My mind is in a muddle. Like… thick fog. I can’t make sense to myself sometimes.” ― Edward D. Wood Jr.
36. “When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
37. “You fog the mind, you stir the soul.” ― Robbie Robertson
38. “Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.” ― Dewitt Bodeen
More Fog quotes and sayings
39. “Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.” ― Claude Adrien Helvetius
40. “Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz
41. “The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.” — Van Morrison
42. “The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.” ― Terry Pratchett
43. “Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.” ― Corrie Ten Boom
44. “Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything – real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can’t get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you’re in for the ride of your life.” ― Albert Brooks
45. “The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.” ― Ernest Hemingway
46. “We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.” ― Buddy Wakefield
47. “In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
48. “Fog challenges human sight to look across it. Likewise, our destinations are hidden b the fog of our own sight. Rise, chase and win! ” – Unknown
Motivational Fog Quotes to Push You Through the Fog
49. “Inside the fogs, you think better and thus you see better!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
50. “Don’t be afraid to go into the mist. Be excited because you don’t know where you will end up.” – Sophie Madden
51. “But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” – Nancy Pelosi
52. “Nothing is more mysterious than watching a lonely man who is taking for a night walk in a foggy street!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
53. “Life is foggy; always try to see what lies behind the fog!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
54. “Moonlight disappears down the hills, mountains vanish into the fog and I vanish into poetry.” – Sanober Khan
55. “It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.” – Joseph Conrad
56. “And when the fog’s over and the stars and the moon come out at night it’ll be a beautiful sight.” – Jack Kerouac
57. “Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.” – Shawn Mendes
58. “Fog is a stratus cloud on the ground.” ― Steven L. Horstmeyer
59. “Fog is not water vapor but condensed liquid or solid water. If a fog is composed of small ice crystals it is termed frozen fog.” ― Steven L. Horstmeyer
60. “A trees get their sap water entirely through their roots, fog is only a substitute for rain when it condenses and drips on the ground.” ― Rutherford Platt
Fog Quotes That You Can Relate To
61. “The fog eventually clears itself.” — Marty Rubin
62. “To find the truth, one must travel through a dense fog!” — David Dweck
63. “For fog was merely a cloud that wasn’t too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.” — Jan Karon
64. “Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.” — Aleksandra Ninkovic
65. “Three foggy mornings and one rainy day. Will rot the best birch fence a man can build.” — Robert Frost
66. “The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
67. “Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.” — Henri Matisse
68. “At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices.” — Erin Bow
69. “Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.” — Chuck Jones
70. “I reach toward the shining mountains, beyond the fog of daily worries.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fog Quotes When it Appears Smoky
71. “The fog comes / on little cat feet. / It sits looking / over harbor and city / on silent haunches / and then moves on.” ― Carl Sandburg
72. “Fog was natural, smoke unnatural.” ― Christine L. Corton
73. “Foggy autumn mornings during longer autumn nights often reaches the dew point temperature and fog forms.” ― Steven L. Horstmeyer
74. “Just like driving in the fog, adversity slows us to a crawl and sometimes brings us to a complete stop.” ― David Byrd
75. “The fog’s gray curtain round me draws, / And leaves no world to me / Save this swift drama of the stirred / And restless sea.” ― Silas Weir Mitchell
76. “In most parts of the world fog has always been a natural phenomenon, clouding the air with tiny water particles when the climatic conditions are right.” ― Christine L. Corton
77. “Fog could thus appear as a kind of food ingested or inhaled, not only by the poor.” ― Christine L. Corton
78. “What is a cloud in the air from the vantage point of a valley is fog form the mountain side at the same elevation as the cloud.” ― Steven L. Horstmeyer
79. “The fog of adversity slows our pace from the hustle and bustle of life.” ― David Byrd
80. “The fog slips ghost like into a thousand rooms, / Whirls over sleeping faces, / Spins in an atomy dance round misty street lamps; / And blows in cloudy waves over open spaces.” ― Conrad Potter Aiken
Fog Quotes That You can Relate To
81. “Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.” ― Ben Weaver
82. “Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?” ― Elbert Hubbard
83. “Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.” ― Rose Wilder Lane
84. “The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.” ― Frederick Lenz
85. “A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.” ― Rudyard Kipling
86. “The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.” ― Anne Sexton
87. “In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray.” ― Paul Dano
88. “Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.” ― Adam Duritz
89. “There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
90. “When I play my best golf, I feel as if I’m in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.” ― Mickey Wright
What did you learn from these Fog quotes?
People use the term fog to describe depression because, as with actual fog it can be hard to see the end of the tunnel, or even what is going to happen in the immediate future.
Fog can be dangerous because one cannot see things coming or see where they are going, so sometimes, the answer is just to give yourself a moment until it passes.
That can be good advice for the fog quotes that act as a metaphor for life.
Hopefully, these quotes reminded you that even though life can get confusing and hard to manage sometimes, those moments do not last forever.
How many decisions would you do differently if you had waited until having a little more information?
We shouldn’t hold off making decisions because of fear, but sometimes, it is ok to make sure you have as much knowledge as you can.
Fog isn’t always bad though!
As several of these quotes pointed out, there is a beauty that can found in it.
Like the way it dances across the ground or lingers on the trees.
Remember to try and find the good things in those tough situations and you will make your way out to the other side.
Feel free to leave some of your favorite fog quotes and sayings that didn’t make the list in the comment section below.
