Cloud Quotes

Behind every cloud is another cloud. (Judy Garland)
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. View quote
Pythagoras
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where. View quote
Robert Bridges
. . . there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. View quote
George Eliot
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. View quote
Robert Frost
I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear. View quote
William Blake
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. (William Blake)
All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other- Only the mountain and I. View quote
Li Bai
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born . . . . View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses." View quote
James Madison
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head. View quote
Dave Grohl
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy faith again;O range no more the realms of air, Stoop to the glen-bound streams; Thy hope was all too like despair: Enough, enough of dreams. View quote
Alfred Noyes
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. View quote
Italo Calvino
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud. (Romain Gary)
When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud. View quote
Mario Andretti
All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree - not of a cloud. View quote
John Ruskin
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. View quote
Maya Angelou