Lucretius Quotes About Rain

Quotes about: Rain

• Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

  Lucretius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

• The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

  Lucretius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Stay Strong

• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

• From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

  Lucretius

  Rain, Flower, Heart

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

• ...Thus it comes
  That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains,
  Could bear no produce such as makes us glad,
  And whatsoever lives, if shut from food,
  Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

  Lucretius

  Rain, Earth, Bears

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.186, Delphi Classics

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