Rain Quotes - page 2

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. (W. Somerset Maugham)

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

James Dickey

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

G. K. Chesterton

Still falls the Rain - Dark as the world of man, black as our loss - Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross.

Edith Sitwell

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. (John Cheever)

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Bob Marley

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Jonathan Swift

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Douglas Adams

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

Dave Barry

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Peter Zumthor

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Jerzy Kosinski

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Dennis Weaver

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

Francis Maude

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

Michael W. Smith

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need. (Thomas Haden Church)

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Edmund Waller

Methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Samuel Pepys

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain. Let the brokenhearted love again. Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide.

Bruce Springsteen

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