Stormy Quotes - Page 5

• My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Gitanjali”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Rivers

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

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• I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

  Jeanette Winterson

  Morning, Lying, Love Is

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• If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Summer, Sunshine, Dark

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.40, Dell

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• Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Doubt, Mind, Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.189, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.

  Marguerite Duras

  Summer, Rain, Sky

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Powerful, Struggle, Light

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• I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.

  Polly Horvath

  Sea, Risk, Balls

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• Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Real, Ocean

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)”, p.6505, e-artnow

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• The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.

  Sarah Monette

  Kings, War, Army

  Sarah Monette (2008). “The Mirador”, p.80, Penguin

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• Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Prayer, Integrity

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.262, Penguin

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• Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?

  Werner Herzog

  Fog, Clouds, Glasses

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• Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Perseverance, Feet

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.211, Bantam

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• The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Archer, Clouds, Wings

  Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

  John Donne

  Night, Scapes, Everlasting

  'A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany' (1619)

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• The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

  Maya Angelou

  Lonely, Gratitude, Attitude

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.32, Random House

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• We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Memories, Flower, Sunshine

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• It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

  Alexandre Dumas

  Clouds, Sky, Soul

  Alexandre Dumas (2010). “The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes”, p.264, Lulu.com

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• Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

  Mitch Albom

  Sea, Miracle, Rooms

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Day appears again. This time he leans in close enough for his hair to brush, light as silk, against my cheeks. He pulls me towards for a long kiss. The scene vanishes, replaced abruptly by a stormy night and Day struggling through the rain, blood dripping from his leg and leaving a trail behind him. He collapses onto his knees in front of Razor before the whole scene disappears again.

  Marie Lu

  Rain, Struggle, Kissing

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• An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

  Noel Coward

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

  John Fletcher

  Women, Believe, Night

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman”, p.18

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• But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.

  Bill McCartney

  Beautiful, Good Life, Ocean

  Bill McCartney (1995). “From Ashes to Glory”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Business, Fighting, Thinking

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

  John Muir

  Short Life, Fate, Blessing

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.187, Library of America

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