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Quotes About Sky

It is a necessary difficulty that the Land must sometimes keep secrets from itself, the Sky shows as we walk. It is the only way to make hope possible.
~ Patrick Ness
she is born in the breath of a cloud
~ Patrick Ness
You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I have come walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness? It laughed louder and louder again, until the ground was shaking and it felt like the sky itself might tumble down.
~ Patrick Ness
The sun's well up now and the sky as blue as fresh meat.
~ Patrick Ness
What's in the water? - Flowers and the part of the moon that isn't in the sky tonight.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Her eyes were of the bluest black Like night sky with the clouds blown back
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A great spider of lightning crawled across the sky,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Hey, look up there!" he said as he pointed toward the sky. "A flock of turtles." Like a fool, I looked. I knew it wasn't the right time of year for turtles to migrate, but I looked anyway. When
~ Unknown
What exactly am I supposed to be looking for? That imaginary tidal wave of yours?" Mr. Martin said. And as if to accentuate his words, a wall of water appeared and blocked out the sky. Mr. Martin promptly exclaimed something about the divine nature of human excrement. "I
~ Unknown
There comes a moment when an individual who is too honest to take refuge in the old illusion of self-importance is suspended agonizingly between the flat sky and the flat earth, and prayer is no more that a slight gumminess on the roof of the mouth.
~ Patrick White
Swallows flew, the scythes of their wings mowing the light.
~ Patrick White
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
~ Patti Smith
I got some coffee and stood looking at the sky.
~ Patti Smith
Saíamos para caminhar à noite. Às vezes conseguíamos enxergar Vênus acima de nós. Era a estrela dos pastores e a estrela do amor.
~ Patti Smith
Enfim, junto ao mar, onde Deus está em toda parte, lentamente fui me acalmando. Continuei olhando o céu. As nuvens tinham as cores de um Rafael. Uma rosa ferida. Tive a sensação de que ele próprio tinha pintado a nuvem. Você o verá. Você o conhecerá. Você verá a mão dele. Essas palavras me vieram, e eu soube que um dia veria um céu pintado pela mão de Robert.
~ Patti Smith
Byrne told me that you can´t fix your exact position on the earth without referring to some point in the sky.
~ Paul Auster
the English were probably on intimate terms with clouds,for if he had learned nothing else from Dickens,it was that the clouds in the sky over London came down for frequent visits among the people,and on a day such as this one it looked as if they had brought along their toothbrushes and were planning to spend the night.
~ Paul Auster
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
~ Paul Bowles
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
~ Paul Bowles
A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.
~ Paul Bowles
Someone once had said to her that the sky hides the night behind it, shelters the person beneath from the horror that lies above. Unblinking, she fixed the solid emptiness, and the anguish began to move in her. At any moment the rip can occur, the edges fly back, and the giant maw will be revealed.
~ Paul Bowles
the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.
~ Paul Bowles
The indigo sky is strewn with stars, which cluster in countless thousands close over our heads. The rising moon is a thin crescent disc of silver light. On our left the evening fireflies are making the compound grove radiant, and above them the plumed heads of tall palms stand out in black silhouette against the sky. My adventure in self-metamorphosis is over …
~ Paul Brunton