Clouds Quote by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee…

— John Keble

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

— Honore de Balzac

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

— Aaron Hill

Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here…

— Thomas Aquinas

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

— Sophocles

“O little Cloud," the virgin said, "I charge thee tell to me, Why thou complainest not when in one hour thou fade away: Then…

— William Blake

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

— Horace

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

— Anonymous

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,…

— William Shakespeare

“Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be Veil upon…

— Edwin Arnold

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now…

— Aeschylus