Rain Quotes - Page 26

• The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’t want to leave, because I don’t know where to go

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Fall, Water

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Eggs, White

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2618, Bantam

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• You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. You would like to play the piano, but the rain comes to sit alongside and play an accompaniment. And then the dry weather returns, which is to say there is steam and bright light. People age quickly.

  Sándor Márai

  Book, Light, Play

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• Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reason, Grows, Dies

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.

  Marguerite Duras

  Summer, Sky, Childhood

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.

  Kristin Hannah

  Beautiful, Night, Magic

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Land, Giving, Water

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• You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?" June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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• I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

  Ray Bradbury

  Tired, Eight, Skins

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• (and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)

  e. e. cummings

  Flower, Gestures, Hips

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

  Alan Lightman

  Selfish, Ocean, Unconditional Love

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• The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Pain, Writing, Heart

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.202, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

  Mary E. Pearson

  Shade, Walden Pond, Grass

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.51, Macmillan

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• And I, the for­mer mys­tic, was think­ing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve de­ceived You, You chased them from par­adise. When You were dis­pleased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your fa­vour, You caused the heav­ens to rain down fire and damna­tion. But look at these men whom You have be­trayed, al­low­ing them to be tortured, slaugh­tered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray be­fore You! They praise Your name!

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Thinking, Fire

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• It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Two, Church, Idiot

  Flannery O'Connor (2015). “Wise Blood”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• That she had somehow taken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on the street with the rain coming down and mascara running onto her cheeks, all I could think was that I'd never seen anyone more beautiful.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Running, Taken

  Nicholas Sparks (2003). “The Wedding”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Moving, Fall

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• You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.

  Nhat Hanh

  Clouds, Cry, Stills

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.47, Penguin

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• Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Sound, Showers

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1832). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Third Edition”, p.218

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• Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

  Gregory Maguire

  Wish, Said

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• Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wind, Smell, Age

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.307, Random House

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• It can't rain all the time.

  James O'Barr

  Crow, Knobs

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

  Rajneesh

  Fire, Dancing, Water

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• During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Winter, Water, Virgin Suicides

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• We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Two, Clouds, Moments

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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