Rain Quotes - Page 13

• Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fire, Hot, Details

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Heart, Mercy Of God

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.

  Stan Rice

  Remember, Thunder, Like Something

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• Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Wind, Tea, Four

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• They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain

  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Blood, Battle, Scene

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• I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

  John Steinbeck

  Should Have, Land, Littles

  "To a God Unknown".

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• rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Science, Night, Glasses

  Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Four Scarpetta Novels”, p.415, Penguin

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• There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, War, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Unjust, Causes

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• Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about him, and felt, inexplicably, the way one might feel upon recognizing a melody or a voice, that all this had happened to him before and that he had faced it with fear but also with joy and hopefulness and curiosity. Then he descended into his memory, which seemed to him endless, and managed to draw up from that vertigo the lost remembrance that gleamed like a coin in the rain - perhaps because he had never really looked at it except (perhaps) in a dream.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Morning, Memories

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

  Jack Johnson

  Needs

  Song: Banana Pancakes

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• but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

  Dean Young

  Taken, Clouds, Ugly Things

  Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books

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• And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

  C. S. Lewis

  One Thing

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.104, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

  Susanna Clarke

  Sight, Blue, Two

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

  Susanna Clarke

  Kings, Wind, Land

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• And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Country, Sweet

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Doe, Cried

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• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Rivers, Feet

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

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• empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Frozen, Hovering, Sun

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

  Jodi Picoult

  Home, Hair, Long

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• Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Summer, Song

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.

  Tom Robbins

  Autumn, Wind, Upset

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• ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Butterfly, Punishment, Bird

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• 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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