Rain Quotes - Page 12

• What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Grieving, Joy

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.69, Atlântico Press

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• Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Legs

  "Judge Judy". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1996 - ).

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• Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. It was almost like he was there.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sweaters, Grace, Bed

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• All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Men, Shining

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Princeps' Fury”, p.418, Penguin

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• I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Eye, Moon, Night

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.

  Shel Silverstein

  Pain, Tree, Soul

  Shel Silverstein, “Cloony The Clown”

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• Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Block, Stupid

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• To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Horse, Wind, Shadow

  "Fictional character: Théoden". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

  Markus Zusak

  Patience, Crazy, Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.62, Random House

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• I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Wind, White

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• She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Song, Men, Feet

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.474, Vintage Canada

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• Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

  Lois Lowry

  World, Mama, Cry

  Lois Lowry, Douglas Wayne Larche, Susan Elliott Larche (1996). “Number the Stars”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

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• People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Spring, Hair, Purple

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• you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing,i said,except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. ....and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe,the rain answered

  e. e. cummings

  Beautiful, Girl, Spring

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.10, C.H.Beck

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• With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Heaven

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• End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Journey, Glasses, World

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Into every life a little rain must fall.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Inspirational, Fall, Littles

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.149, Penguin

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• It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Atlanta, Sky, Snakes

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• You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

  Truman Capote

  Mean, Long, Hollies

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• A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.

  Anne Rice

  Summer, Night, Water

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

  Tom Waits

  Weather, Whiskey, Rough

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• There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Hard Times, Two, Snow

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

  John Masefield

  Travel, Stars, Sleep

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

  John Sandford

  Flower, Dark, Moon

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• Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read about our suffocated generation, We are a hopeless case. We are as worthless as a water-melon rind. Dont read about us, Dont ape us, Dont accept us, Dont accept our ideas, We are a nation of crooks and jugglers. Arab children, Spring rain, Corn ears of the future, You are the generation That will overcome defeat.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Children, Spring, Ideas

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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