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Quotes About Clouds

With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.
~ Flann O'Brien
Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven's black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!
~ Robert Montgomery
The different pamphlets that lined the coffee table all had clouds on their covers. I shuffled them, then shuffled them again, but the weather wouldn't change.
~ Robert Olen Butler
I know that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds.
~ Robert Seymour Bridges
The atmosphere is possessive of its water. While the clouds are generous with their rain, the sky always calls it back again with the inexorable pull of evaporation.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
start the day properly, with birdsong and shoes soaked in dew and the clouds still pink with sunrise over the barn, a down payment on a debt of gratitude.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.
~ Lois Lowry
The later-afternoon air of our exhalations hung in brief clouds before us. The thought balloon of my own breath said, How have I found myself here? It was not a theological question. It was one of transportation and neurology.
~ Lorrie Moore
To the right, the clouds have more shape and against the blue look like the figures of a Wedgwood dish. What a fine fucking bowl beneath which they have all been caught and asked to swim out their days! Look at it this way," people used to say to Mack. "Things could be worse"—a bumper sticker for a goldfish or a bug. And it wasn't wrong — it just wasn't the point.
~ Lorrie Moore
The clouds hung like dark, blowing tapestries in the gaps of the hills.
~ Louis L'Amour
It looks like rain clouds moving in.
~ Louis Sachar
As lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds, and shone upon her like a bright, benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, 'Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
~ Louisa May Alcott
De improviso, la luna se abrió paso entre las nubes y lo llenó todo de luz, como una cara luminosa y benigna que parecía susurrar en el silencio: No te desanimes, querida, recuerda que tras las nubes siempre llega la luz.
~ Louisa May Alcott
As she lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds and shone upon her like a bright, benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, "Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset. Gold and purple clouds lay on the hilltops, and rising high into the ruddy light were silvery white peaks that shone like the airy spires of some Celestial City
~ Louisa May Alcott
Someone had cleared that hillside once to make an orchard that had fallen into ruin and was now only twisted silver branches and split trunks. I sat there and continued to watch the sky as, out of nowhere, great solid-looking clouds built hot stacks and cotton cones. I was sixteen years old.
~ Louise Erdrich
She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
We are creatures of air, Our roots in dreams And clouds, reborn In flight.
~ Salman Rushdie
Somos criaturas del aire, / con raíces en los sueños / y las nubes renacidas / en el vuelo.
~ Salman Rushdie
His eyes are a hazy swirl ofgray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm
~ Elle Kennedy, The Deal
She was in tears; and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like those meteors which are seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Hava hâlâ, grimtrak bulutlar aras?nda kaybolan uçsuz bucaks?z ufkun seçilebileceÄŸi kadar ayd?nl?kt?.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When they opened the door, it was to reveal a wan sky in which the moon struggled in vain to hold its own against a sea of clouds which poured dark waves across it, waves which it lit for a moment before they raced on, still darker than before, to lose themselves in the depths of infinity.
~ Alexandre Dumas