Dies Quote by Rutger Hauer

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see…

— James Russell Lowell

“There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and…

— Victor Hugo

The sparrow still falls.

— Mary Doria Russell

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Today I seen a dove collide into the sunset, on the way to heaven and a ruined raven chewing on death, over the pavement.”

— Anthony Liccione

“There's a goose asleep in the rain!”

— Roger Hargreaves

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down…

— James Russell Lowell

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

— Victor Hugo

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Sometimes in storm weather the shore had fluttered with disabled swallows. They crouched lower for his approach, without strength to escape. In his hands…

— Barry Unsworth

“If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens…

— Steve Allen