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Quotes About Overcast

Ma stood for a long moment and took in the panorama. Her gaze moving from left to right, she viewed the perimeter of the ice-covered plain. Three sides of the lake were bordered in marshland. The dusky skeletons of long dead pine trees angled helter-skelter at the verge of the marshes. Beyond, scrub forests of oak and maple in saturnine nakedness stood on the rolling terrain. A dark overcast added to the grimness of the tableau. Ma looked over the expanse of ice toward the old resort.
~ Aaron Stander
I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.
~ Joseph Conrad
of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
We have lost the first of the ebb, said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
Nobody moved for a time. We have lost the first of the ebb, said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
~ Joseph Addison
When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.
~ Ravi Shastri
What I wanted was that walk: slate and windy, the sky overcast but not threatening rain. I
~ Kathleen Rooney
The overcast sky seemed almost alive with birds—Cape pigeons, terns, fulmars
~ Alfred Lansing
Outside the sky was blank, the light pewter.
~ Erik Larson
You might imagine that the magic stopped at the airport, and to a great extent it did. When we arrived back in London, the skies were overcast and heavy. The bus driver from the airport was morose and unkempt; the streets seemed run-down and dirty, the people sour-faced. But that, I suspect, is how coming home is for everyone; Parisians probably felt the same when they returned from somewhere else.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.
~ Alexandre Dumas
My friend,' said Maximilien, 'the voice of my heart is sad indeed and promises only misfortune.' 'Only a weak spirit sees everything from behind a dark veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Only a weak spirit sees everything from behind a dark veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.
~ Alexandre Dumas
the sky outside was so gloomy it pushed down on anyone who dared to walk beneath it.
~ Alice Hoffman
Water droplets shine in his eyelashes. Dusk seeps down through the overcast and a slight chill drops into the air and one by one families leave to walk or bike or ride the bus home.
~ Anthony Doerr
It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.
~ John Connolly
There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.
~ Daniel Handler
The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
~ Stephen King
It was eleven forty-five, overcast, fourteen degrees above zero, and damp. Cold for any month of the year, even January. The forecast called for a major snowstorm. They said it was moving in from Chicago. Ten to fifteen inches by nightfall. It was not the best day to be standing outside, but the congressman from Arizona was oblivious to the weather.
~ Eric Rill
Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.
~ Kelsang Gyatso
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky....
~ Joseph Conrad
It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The sky was full of stacked gray clouds and the air tasted like a nickel.
~ Judy Blundell