Rain Quotes - Page 35

• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Morning, Suicidal

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

  Tom O'Connor

  Golf, Wind, White

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• My heart is a garden tired with autumn,
  Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark,
  In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April,
  The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark;
  Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning,
  And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain -
  The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten -
  After the stillness, will spring come again?

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  Sara Teasdale, “The Garden”

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• Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

  Pablo Neruda

  Distance, Winter, Silence

  Pablo Neruda (2002). “Winter Garden”, p.35, Copper Canyon Press

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• Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

  Mao Zedong

  Wall, Lakes, Clouds

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Beach, Lying, War

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Weather, Feelings

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• Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Sports, Heaven, Cricket

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• The sound of the rain needs no translation.

  Alan Watts

  Sound, Needs, Translations

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• Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Best Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.193, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

  Edwin Morgan

  Kissing, Eyelashes, Tree

  Edwin Morgan (2011). “A Book of Lives”, p.42, Carcanet

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• A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Compassion, Generosity

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Doe

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• The dearest events are summer-rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Events, Summer Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Shade, Walden Pond, Grass

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

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• I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

  Russell Page

  Tired, I'm Tired

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• Whenever it rains you will think of her.

  Neil Gaiman

  Rainy Day, Thinking, Raining Day

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.

  B. J. Thomas

  Mean, Eye, Red

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The sun won't shine since you went away, seems like the rain's falling every day. There's just one heart, where there once was two; that's the way it's gotta be until I get over you.

  Christina Milian

  Lost Love, Fall, Heart

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• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
  But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
  Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
  Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
  Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
  Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

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• When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Living Buddha, Living Christ”, p.11, Random House

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• Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

  Mary Quant

  Flower, Paper, Paper Flowers

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• I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

  Robert Bolt

  Good Luck, Beer, Wings

  Robert Bolt, Tim Bezant (1996). “A Man for All Seasons: A Play of Sir Thomas More”, p.57, Heinemann

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• If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

  Shannon Miller

  Strong, Gymnastics, Shining

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