Overcast Quotes

• The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Clouds, Sky

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.84, Xist Publishing

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• A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

  William Arthur Ward

  Positive, Happiness, Appreciation

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• In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

  Ovid

  Sky, May, Prosperity

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• Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Summer, Lying, Past

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press

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• The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

  Joseph Addison

  Morning, Fate, Clouds

  Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

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• The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Clouds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Fall, Clouds

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• The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Lying, Light

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• I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Winter, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Fall, World

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.166

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• I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

  Jay London

  Clouds, People, Casting

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• Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

  Mark Hart

  Clouds, Views, Perspective

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.38, Franciscan Media

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• The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

  Stephen King

  Circles, Burning, Moisture

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

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• Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Laughter, Eye

  Luci Swindoll (1989). “You Bring the Confetti”, W Publishing Group

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• As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Pain, Flower

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• Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

  Tennessee Williams

  Running, Clouds, Light

  Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.493, Yale University Press

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• It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.

  John Connolly

  Morning, Winter, Clouds

  John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.899, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes!--still I love thee: Time, who sets
  His signet on my brow,
  And dims my sunken eye, forgets,
  The heart he could not bow;--
  Where love, that cannot perish, grows
  For one, Alas! that little knows
  How love may sometimes last;
  Like sunshine wasting in the skies
  When clouds are overcast.

  Rufus Dawes

  Heart, Eye, Sunshine

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• In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the locals. The snow crunches under your boots and clings to your trousers, to the cuffs, and once you’re inside, the snow clings to you psyche, and eventually you have to go to the doctor. The past soaks into you in this weather because the present is missing almost entirely.

  Charles Baxter

  Past, Doctors, Sky

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.248, Vintage

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• The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

  Mary Wigman

  Dance, Summer, Stars

  Mary Wigman (1966). “The language of dance”

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• Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

  Stephen Levine

  Clouds, Light, Shining

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.6, Anchor

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• With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Friendship, Sky, Sun

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• It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Past, Peeking, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Grief, Rain, Night

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

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• Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.

  Spike Milligan

  Morning, Class, Tourists

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