Clouds Quotes
1715 quotes by 1196 authors
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
— James Joyce
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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the…
— Shannon Hale
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The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He…
— Charles Baudelaire
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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will…
— William Shakespeare
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I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.…
— Sylvia Plath
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Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek,…
— Gary Snyder
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People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a…
— Markus Zusak
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Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding…
— Matthew Scully
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
— Nhat Hanh
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We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in…
— Shirley Jackson
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
— Bertrand Russell
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
— Wendell Berry
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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is…
— Rumi
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But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur;…
— Susanna Clarke
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Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a…
— Truman Capote
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