Quotes About Clouds

We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.

It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe....

De wolken konden zich elk moment ontladen. Kleiner leek de onmetelijkheid van de atmosfeer en dichter bij de wereld; de hemel hing verlangend boven de aarde, klaar om deze te omarmen en te bevruchten.

the dark sky mustn't herald a storm

The clouds are stained with blood!" rasped Barkface, his eyes wide and glazed. "It is a sign from our ancestors. There is trouble ahead. This day shall bring an unnecessary death.

You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Espèce de saint d'Afrique, pensé-je, tu viens donner ta sagesse à un sauvage d'Europe qui suit la lune sur le calendrier et les nuages d'après le bulletin de la radio, et qui ne sait lire aucun mot sans un alphabet. (p. 93)

Les nuages déconcertaient le vent, se désagrégeant dans leur course, et le vent courait, aboyant comme un chien de berger pour les garder rassemblés en troupeau. Vers le soir, toutes les formes possibles s'apaisaient en lignes de rouge où le soleil descendait, appelant tout le ciel à se déchirer, à disparaître.

Le sillabe del mio nome in bocca a lei mi scuotono ogni volta, mi afferrano dai poveri pensieri sulle cose da fare e mi portano nel cerchio della felicità. La sua voce è il vento per le mie orecchie foglie, insieme fanno per me il suono più bello del mondo. [La faccia delle nuvole]

Attraverso le lacrime, che non sono un velo ma gocce per vedere con futuro. [La faccia delle nuvole]

Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

Sale un' ora d' attesa in cielo, vacua, dal mare che s'ingrigia. Un albero ill nuvole sull' acqua cresce, poi crolla come di cinigia. Assente, come manem in questa plaga che ti presente e senza te consuma: sei lontana e pero tutto divaga dal suo soleo, dirupa, spare in bruma.

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds … Custer

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

How long will it last, this peace I have found at sea? It is all of life that I contemplate—sun, clouds, time that passes and abides.

The days go by, never monotonous. Even when they appear exactly alike they are never quite the same. That is what gives life at sea its special dimension, made up of contemplation and very simple contrasts. Sea, winds, calms, sun clouds, porpoises. Peace, and the joy of being alive in harmony.

he raised his eyes above the black shapes of the trees and saw a small moon, the colour of a lemon, dragged by clouds across the sky. Moons, he thought, were so that men like himself would know they lived here on earth.

Sometimes, when it is cloudy, I can sleep.

I should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds

He stretched out his arms toward the sun and prayed in a tongue no villager could understand; though indeed the villagers did not try very hard to understand, since their attention was mostly taken up by the sky and the odd shapes the clouds were assuming.

The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky. When

In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.

In all, there were ten different types of clouds: cumulus, stratos, cumulonimbus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, and cirrus – each with their own personality: fluffy, detached, transparent, thin, continuous, gray, heavy, dense, semi-transparent, and layered, which I use to describe my own moods and feelings at any given time.

I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.