Best rain & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.”

Would Be Dark Week Rain Clouds Relief Gray Apartment Ceilings Manhattan Dripping

Author:Joan Didion

“Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile.”

Looks Children Heaven Dark Sun Cry Rain Shining Cheer Wet Rainbow Brooks Thistles

Author:Mary Howitt

“I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.”

Way I Can Dark Sun Gone Future Rain Blind Shining Clouds Obstacles My Way Premonition Dark Clouds

Author:Johnny Nash

“Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.”

Hands Night Dark Sleep Bears Rain Driving Reach Out Going To Sleep Teddy Paws Teddy Bear

Author:Charlotte Gray

“Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.”

Light Moving Dark Cities Saws Figures Red Rain Gold Wheels Tense Howl Sirens Gongs Dark City

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.”

Soul Pain Dark Fields Broken Cold Rain My Soul

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.”

Knows Heart Littles War Hard Games Dark Kindness Rain Soldier Cards Sunshine Cigarette Bullets Bent Insects Trenches

Author:Conor Oberst

“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.”

Heart Littles Real Dark Tree Tears Rain Roots Substance Fancy Soil Misanthropy Vapor Pine Trees Rift

Book:Life and books, or Records of thought and reading

Source: Life and books, or Records of thought and reading

“I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.”

Trying Made Dark Rain Clouds Armchairs Dark Days

Author:Ayana Mathis

“The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.”

Doe States Water Dark Morning Sun Promise Moon Rain Blue Wide Dawn Lakes Autumn Eagles Mississippi Rosy Sun Rise Delta Deep Water Mississippi Delta

Book:Wolf Whistle

Source: Wolf Whistle

“When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.”

Thinking Book Dark Fire Wind Rain Window Driving Voyages Sleet

Book:The Long Voyage

Source: The Long Voyage

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!”

Dark Sun Rain Train Storm Tunnels Hesitation

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of a child on an airplane, the way the rain falls down through tree branches, the aroma of honeysuckle as I ride my bike down the Natchez Trace, and through the love of friends who have carried me through the darkest times of my life.”

Way Looks Children Seems Fall Dark Tree Laughter Rain Innocent Branches Airplane Far Away Bike Falling Down Time Of My Life Aroma Tree Branches Darkest Times

Author:Anne Marie Miller

“In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.”

Night Dark Darkness Rain Dark Night

Author:Rajneesh

“When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.”

Writing Kind Kids Action Used Fun Dark Growing Up Nice Growing Rain Sci Fi Flash Depressing Being Nice 80s Dystopian Bucks Roger Serials Kids Growing Up Busters Buck Rogers Flash Gordon

Author:Mark Millar

“Surfing and music have always been two completely separate things in my life, and a lot of people, especially in the UK, don't really get surfing very much. They think it's the Californian dream. They're like, "Oh, so you're a surfer and you're this and that," and it's like, I go surfing because I like the outdoors. In England it's freezing cold, and it's usually dark and raining and it's the middle of winter, and you do it because it's invigorating. It's like going on a walk in some remote place on the planet. It's really - it's not very glamorous.”

People Thinking Dream Dark Cold Rain Winter Surfing Glamorous

Author:Ben Howard

“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.”

Men World Stills Fall Black Dark Loss Hundred Rain Crosses Blind Forty Nails Rainy Day Nineteen

Author:Edith Sitwell

“It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.”

Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely

“The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.”

Ifs Dark Rain Dirty Silver Usual Filthy

Book:False Memory

Source: False Memory

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.”

Knows Way Made Ends Dream Hands Running Causes Dark Rain Roots Bones Necks Succession Spine Shiver Dark Dreams

Book:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.”

Stills Ideas Past Certain Felt Dark Cities Streets Figures Strange Shadow Rain Filled Strange Days

Author:Christopher Fowler

“Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7”

Dark Rocks Flower Moon Rain Flats Cows Detectives Clerks

Author:John Sandford

“Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just the same as they are these days? Did it still rain and get dark and all the stuff it does now? Did the sun go up and down in exactly the same way?" Yes," Tom said, and then he smiled at Rose and said, "No. Not really. Not exactly the same way.”

Way Doe Said Stills Remember Stuff Born Dark Sun Rain Rose These Days Toms Up And Down Tease

Book:Caddy Ever After

Source: Caddy Ever After

“It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.”

Dark Rain Slow Down Jersey Visibility

Book:Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.”

Source: The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems

“I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Dream Lying Next Dark Sleep Wonder Watches Rain Complexes Breathe Inferiority Inferiority Complex Dance In The Rain

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.”

Mind Littles Ends Light Fall Grows Dark Accepting Sun Seeing Possibility Victory Rain Shining Cynical Questioning Spit Tasting Dead Ends Jaded Sun Shines

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.”

Heart Long Hands Used House Waiting Dark Sleep Break Morning Doors Streets My Heart Beats Rain Noise Guilty Far Away Blank Creeps Begin Again Ghastly

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding. Surely you lot look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing's going on? Surely you take a Playstation break?”

Ifs Looks Political Religious Dark Break Rain Clouds Look Up Internals Racing Fanaticism Bleeding Playstation

Book:I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story

Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story

“Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.”

Thinking Stills I Can Light Fighting Dark Steps Doors Cold Rain Finals Steel Moonlight Juliet Roaring

Author:Lauren Oliver

“She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.”

Knows World Home Light Waiting Voice Dark Walks Secret Saws Arms Promise Rain Meetings Tiny Necks Sunshine Umbrella Fingertips Balconies

Author:Laini Taylor

“I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.”

People Ifs Feels I Can Ends Helping Wanted Pain Dark Too Much Pieces Goes On Rain Lonely Tired Glasses Ugly If I Could Boss Buddy I'm Tired Robins

Book:The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

Source: The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

“There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.”

Source: Hush, Hush

“In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because it was intolerant of rain. Now, we are here in a place where there are no trees and there is only rain. And I intend to leave this place - because it is intolerant of light. Somewhere - there must be somewhere where darkness and light are reconciled. So I am starting a rumour, here and now, of yet another world. I don't know when it will present itself - I don't know where it will be. But - as with all those other worlds now past when it is ready, I intend to go there.”

Knows World Said Light Past Left Born Dark Darkness Sun Tree Ready Rain Starting Here And Now Light And Darkness Other Worlds Another World Lucy Rumours

Author:Timothy Findley

“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.”

Running Night Water Dark Sleep Blood Rain Fragile Dark Water

Book:Il grande

Source: Il grande

“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.”

Doe Hands Eye Beautiful Faces Belief Dark Sky Honest Rain Gold Shining Vulnerable Lightning June Wipe Invincible Streaks Eyelashes Hands Up Dark Eyes

Author:Marie Lu

“And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?”

Doe Night Waiting Dark Walks Levels Millions Listening Rain Towns Graves Branches Melancholy Steady September Small Town Roaring Brooding Dripping Rain At Night

Book:The Town and the City

Source: The Town and the City

“When you walk through the storm, hold your head high And don't be afraid of the dark! At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet song of the lark. Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Though your dreams be tossed & blown Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone!”

Heart Ends Dream Song Dark Walks Sky Sweet Wind Rain Storm Golden Your Dreams Larks Through The Storm

Author:Douglas Adams

“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.”

Ifs Action Dark Sleep Responsibility Morning Air Blood Bed Rain Suicide Warm Commit Gray Thick Veins Suicidal Begging Withdrawing

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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?”

“It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.”

Source: Territorial Rights: A Novel

“God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.”

Way Helping Light Eye Pain Dark Darkness Knowing Wise Tree Sorrow Quiet Rain Let Me Sight Bravery Shining Brave Lovely Lifts Grass Help Me After The Rain

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.”

Mind States Shows Night Games Dark Attitude Produce Rain Snow Despite Lunch State Of Mind Slugs

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain”

Dark Behinds Rain Clouds Dark Clouds

Author:Michael Nesmith

“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.”

Lying Night House Dark Darkness Streets Wind Scene Rain London Violent Flames Lamps Occasional Intervals Stormy Stormy Nights

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.”

Life Soul Body Lasts Dark Our Lives Tree Dying Rain Naked Branches Flood

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

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