Stormy Quotes

• Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Literature, World

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 66, 1790.

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• When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!

  Lance Wubbels

  Wind, Wings, May

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• Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.

  Graham Chapman

  Bed, Breakfast, Interviews

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• Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Weather, Together

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• It was a dark and stormy night.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dark, Night, Snoopy

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Wisdom, Time

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Long Walks, Weather

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.70, Heron Dance Press

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Past, Space

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Relationship, Marriage, Lakes

  'Melincourt' (1817)

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• It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

  Charles M. Schulz

  Dark, Night, Snoopy

  Charles M. Schulz (2015). “Peanuts Movie Novelization”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Food, Dark, Ayurveda

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

  Martin Luther

  Fighting, Devil, Monsters

  Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

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• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Sea

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Rain, Dark

  "Paul Clifford". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

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• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

  Carl Sandburg

  Player, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago" l. 1 (1916)

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• We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Heart, Emotional

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• Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Flower, Weather

  "The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words".

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• Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Science, Sky, May

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• Lord, I have loved Your sky,
  Be it said against or for me,
  Have loved it clear and high,
  Or low and stormy...

  Robert Frost

  Love, God, Sky

  Robert Frost (1947). “Steeple Bush”

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• That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

  Bernard Barton

  Adversity, Sky, Ties

  Bernard Barton, Lucy Barton (1853). “Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir”, p.160

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

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