Rain Quotes

2659 Rain quotes by 1645 unique authors

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as… — Bill McKibben
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. — Mark Twain
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though… — Robert Frost
Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their… — Susan Fletcher
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. — William Faulkner
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries,… — E E Cummings
Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing… — Martin Amis
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices… — Jack Kerouac
They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely. — Timothy Findley
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all… — Tupac Shakur
Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under… — Pablo Neruda
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in… — Aldous Huxley
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old… — Van Morrison
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex… — Robert Browning
It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in… — Cormac McCarthy
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when… — Bertolt Brecht
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares… — AndreÃ¯ Makine
nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be… — Margaret Wise Brown
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?… — Diane Setterfield
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare

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