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Quotes About Storms

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.
~ Thomas Campbell
Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
~ Maya Angelou
Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.
~ John Morton
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
~ Dave Barry
Tormentas de estrellas Sobre el fragor de las olas... ¿Nos mojaremos, amor?
~ David Brin
Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.
~ William Shakespeare
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love; we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report...
~ William Shakespeare
As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwracking storms and direful thunders break, so from that spring whence comfort seemed to come discomfort swells.
~ William Shakespeare
The dark membrane contained also a dark fire of such horror that I was unable to perceive it properly. The horror buffeted the dark membrane with a massive impact of sounds and storms and sharp stones great and small.2 Whenever the noise arose it set in motion the layer of bright fire, winds and air, thus causing bolts of lightning to presage the sounds of thunder; for the fiery energy senses the first agitations of the thunder within it.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.
~ Hippocrates
Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties. Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights. Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious.
~ Holly Black
A king is a living symbol, a beating heart, a star upon which Elfhame's future is written. Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors are a bit more vivid, smells are sharper.... When he becomes drunk, his subjects becomes tipsy without knowing why. When his blood falls, things grow.
~ Holly Black
Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious.
~ Holly Black
Las tormentas son menos volubles de lo que son, los mares menos caprichosos.
~ Holly Black
Storms are less fickle than they are, the seas less capricious
~ Holly Black
Could it be there are storms in our lives where our perspective may not match God's? Even when it's impossible to see our circumstances from God's point of view, we can still trust him with anything and everything. And because we trust him, we can praise him no matter what. So, praise him even in your darkest hour, because someday, whether on this side of heaven or the other, we will see what God was doing all along. So why wait? Use your faith and
~ Unknown
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
~ John Muir
One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it's a megacity, it's very saturated with nature - the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound.
~ Lawrence Osborne
Sometimes storms surround us, and the discordant sounds of our circumstances are so loud that they drown out the music. But deep inside us is a song that can rise from God's presence in our life. Even when the storm rages, our response can echo the melody of freedom within us.
~ Jennifer Rothschild
You always wanted calm seas. You used to claim you got along with everyone, that you kept to yourself, that you needed nothing from no one. But one can't ask the sea to never swell into rage. And you asked a great deal from me.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
~ Valerie Jarrett
Nous sommes à la veille d'un nouveau cycle d'ouragans et c'est ce qui obscurcit les consciences. La boussole s'affole à l'approche des orages magnétiques...
~ Victor Serge
Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before--the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.
~ David Levithan
In revolutions, as in storms at sea, solid worth goes to the bottom, and the waves bring lightweight stuff to the surface.
~ Honore de Balzac