Top 100 Quotes About Clouds
#1. Just as when clouds are full they pour out rain, so when men are full of grief, they pour out tears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind, and we enjoy reflecting on our experience of the teachings. Like the sun emerging from behind the clouds, the teachings of the dharma become clear.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#3. I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.
Bruce Sterling
#4. I see that you are heartlessly clever.
For you know how to Love,
but not Forever.
You still return to me in flashes,
so strong it clouds my Mind.
The fire has turned to ashes,
and yet, you're not behind.
Meraaqi
#5. To us it's a sacred mountain and so high that it always wears a necklace of fleecy clouds.
Malala Yousafzai
#6. Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.
Thomas Ligotti
#7. The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.
Lauren DeStefano
#8. Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming ... clouds of educated gnat-notes.
Frank Zappa
#9. the window was down and my music was blasting and i was like, i am the sun on my skin. i am the clouds in the sky. i'm everything i've ever seen or done or felt or heard, and one day i will be gone.
Lauren Myracle
#10. Clouds suit my mood just fine.
Marie Lu
#11. Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.
A J Betts
#12. For what angry God arching backward over the world. his anus spitting fire, the fetid breath of his mouth propelling blood-colored clouds, his navel full of burnt pitch and singed feathers, have we given our eyes, our teeth, our eyeglasses, bales of our our hair, and the magic of our worthless gold?
Erica Jong
#13. Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.
Iimani David
#14. Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most.
Robert Greene
#15. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)
Markus Zusak
#16. The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding. Surely you lot look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing's going on? Surely you take a Playstation break?
Glen Duncan
#17. Being detached means recognizing our emotions as what they are: clouds, sunbursts, weather. They pass. So rather than feed on my anger or sadness, rolling about in it like a pig in its own filth, I see that it is weather, and know that in time it will pass
Suzanne Morrison
#18. Ask the Prince of Dragonstone." For an instant, the deep red clouds that crowned the western hills reminded him of Rhaegar's children, all wrapped up in crimson cloaks.
George R R Martin
#19. Nature is never static, I understand. Change is ever-constant, clouds zipping across a sky. It is dynamic, complicated, tangled, mostly beautiful. A moving forward, something newly gained, means that something is lost, too.
Deb Caletti
#20. Sunlight stretched across the Nebraska miles, burning fiery pink-gold through a bank of clouds on the horizon. It was almost sunset, and the land spread out, an expanse of never-ending cornfields broken only by the rising silhouette of a windmill or grain silo.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#21. Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.
Richelle Mead
#22. Sometimes those experiences crowd back upon the memory, and the past flashes back like a distant peak momentarily lighted up by sunbeam piercing through the clouds. Then oblivion again. Strange it is how the prosaic present may hide the exciting past.
Whipplesnaith
#23. Jewelry of the clouds on the horizon;
Seven circles are intertwined.
A voice follows you without words;
Soft footsteps, in the water of transience.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#24. The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.
Stephen King
#25. The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#26. A single ray of light piercing through the clouds and the canopy, making landfall on the wet, moist soil.
Red Smith
#27. I like eggs and bacon," George tells me. "But" - his face clouds - "do you know that bacon is" - tears leap to his eyes - "Wilbur?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#28. ... the door banged wide open, and the most striking man I had ever seen stood in the frame, the black winds whipping around him like a chariot of storm clouds.
Heather Heffner
#29. Love and Friendship, when you have them or lose them they are much like the Greek story of Icarus...
You can make you feel like you're soaring above the clouds with happiness when you have them or feel like you are plummeting to the depths of hell with despair when you lose them.
Anonymous
#30. When I stand strong in you
I can look beyond the clouds
With your words
The sun will rise again
April Nichole
#31. Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
Marge Piercy
#32. My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
Dorothy Parker
#33. If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.
Ethel M. Dell
#34. I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.
Oliver Neubert
#35. Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#36. For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
Kamila Shamsie
#37. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young
#38. Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.
Matt Haig
#39. And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34)
Edward Abbey
#40. Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#41. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#42. Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.
Santoka Taneda
#43. Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.
Antonia Perdu
#44. Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between
Is my journey's end coming?
Herman Melville
#45. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.
George Friedman
#47. I live there...
Far above the song-filled clouds,
where the dewdrops touch my skin so bare
I live there.
Sanober Khan
#48. Wipe away the tears, cleanse your throat so you may speak and hear, restore the heart to its right place, remove the clouds from the sun in the sky.
Zoe Saadia
#49. When you see the dark clouds, don't feel sad, don't feel bad and don't be afraid because sun is there just behind them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.
Philippe Petit
#51. Back of the clouds, the sun is always shining.
Jack Hyles
#52. The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow
Loosely as cannon-smoke ...
Is a reminder of the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can't come again,
But is for others undiminished somewhere.
Philip Larkin
#53. I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
Billy Joel
#54. For the next ten minutes we talked theology in the green corn while early summer clouds - the best clouds, the ones that float like schooners - sailed slowly above us, trailing their shadows like wakes.
Stephen King
#55. There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze ... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.
Brunonia Barry
#56. He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She was the book thief without the words.
Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.
Markus Zusak
#57. So this is what it's like to have so much desire for something it clouds all fear and embarrassment.
Julie Cross
#58. When she shouted, the gulls hidden by the dune buckshot the low clouds.
Lauren Groff
#59. I looked up, it was the first drop of rain.
Tearing through the clouds, screaming as it did.
For all this effort, it had to head towards the drain,
So I looked up and caught it in my eye instead.
Ankur Goyal
#60. The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#61. Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.
Paul Russell
#62. First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well. Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;
William Shakespeare
#63. There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
William Butler Yeats
#65. Not more free is the eagle which mounts to his rocky eyrie, and afterwards outsoars the clouds, than the soul which Christ hath delivered.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#66. I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
Abraham Cowley
#67. We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along the tiles under the moon wind rising and falling wind with many clouds trees in the night wind.
W.S. Merwin
#69. Clouds rise up to heaven:
The image of WAITING.
Thus the superior man eats and drinks,
is joyous and of good cheer.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#70. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.
Edward E. Barnard
#71. Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.
Sinclair Lewis
#72. Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,
be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!
Johann Gaudenz Von Salis-Seewis
#73. Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#74. My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.
Kirby Larson
#75. I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.
Jay London
#76. Words fly like stones into clouds and accelerate ...
Jay Woodman
#77. Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
Antony Hewish
#78. The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.
William C. Bryant
#79. I'd rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I'll never see.
Hijikata Toshizo
#80. In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
Khalil Gibran
#81. Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.
Ann Beattie
#82. Above the clouds I lift my wing
To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
To Earth I bring;
Then let me soar and sing!
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#83. They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.
Chris Cleave
#84. Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.
Debasish Mridha
#85. The way the rain falls then rises back into the clouds only to fall again reminds me of love.
Sara Secora
#86. The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus
#87. My love lives outside my window
Clouds burst to give water
So her love can grow
My love smiles to me each morning
Says she'll never leave me
And I know it's so
Stevie Wonder
#88. I'm glad I stopped for my new neighbor, though. He's chasing off the dark clouds that've been hanging around lately.
Jessica Hawkins
#89. Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.
Willie Soon
#90. Forever, and a day
I would love to take you away
to a place where we
can play
To dream, to live, to love
Free from the tyranny of doubt
Riding among the stars
Kissed by the clouds
Cheri Bauer
#91. He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
Charles Spurgeon
#92. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
#93. Her satellite made one full orbit around Planet Earth every sixteen hours. It was a prison that came with an endlessly breathtaking view - vast blue oceans and swirling clouds and sunrises that set half the world on fire.
Marissa Meyer
#94. There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.
Frederick Lenz
#96. Time passed, unknowable amounts and I had no sense for it. There was just the blanket and grass, the cold of rain and the heat of Lilly like a small sun beside me, and we lay there until the clouds left and the SimStars reappeared.
Kevin Emerson
#97. His eyes are a hazy swirl of
gray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm
Elle Kennedy
#98. I felt as lonely and desolate as a man suddenly fallen from the clouds into an unknown town on the Antarctic Continent built of ice and inhabited by Penguins. Who are these people? I asked myself irritably.
W.N.P. Barbellion
#99. The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.
Edmund Waller
#100. The Yellow River is boundless
flowing east without cease
on and on never clearing
while everyone's lifespan ends
and ifyou would ride the clouds
how will you grow wings
unless while your hair is black
you make an effort moving or still
Han-shan
