Rain Quotes - Page 26

• Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Lying, Fall

  Tove Jansson (2008). “Moomin Book Three: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip”, Drawn and Quarterly

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• 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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• (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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• 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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• 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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• If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Lakes, Rocks, Flames

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Smart, Book

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

  Tom Stoppard

  Party, Sunday, Garden

  1993 Arcadia.

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• The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna already curled up like sheep's wool." He glanced at me, and a half-smile lit his face, inspite of his obvious perturbation. "Judging by the state of your hair, Sassenach, I should say that it's going to rain verra soon now.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Sheep, Hair, Judging

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• All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

  Charles de Lint

  Mean, Voice, Smell

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