Weather Quotes
192 quotes
"The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused farmer. He was nice, though. He sent me a kind letter saying that while he was flattered, I wasn’t really his type."
"I just invented a hug machine. It’s solar powered so you can use it when you feel depressed, like on a cloudy day. Shit."
"Some people grow cotton, while I have a t-shirt farm. The rainy season is when I get the most visitors."
"My instant love in a box is perfect for Florida. Just add water."
"When it’s raining, instead of using an umbrella, try holding an empty drinking glass above your head. That’s exactly how I thirst for your love."
"What if guns shot clouds, rather than bullets? Then they’d not only be peaceful, but they’d be delayed water guns. Is there a Nobel Farm Prize?"
"It’s easier to hide your smoking habit on a foggy day. Let that be a lesson for you and your secret lover."
"As soon as you cross the county line into where all the wealthier people live, the weather is suddenly sunnier and warmer. Even at night."
"I could be in the middle of a spiritual hurricane, my soul torn and tormented, but when I see you smile it's blue skies for miles. You give me a tsunami of emotions, and my heart is trying to find peace through crashing waves, but they always end up in a cyclone that never dies.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"
"You should never try and out guess Mother Nature because when you do, you come off second best."
"I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time."
"It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry."
"Tut, Tut, looks like rain"
"Do we ever get slow rain?"
"(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God."
"... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy."
"But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold"
"His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which existed all the time, whether he knew it or not."
Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
"(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God."
"Life is like a storm. At its worst, it's full of blinding fury, rage, and destruction. However, at its best, it is full of striking beauty and wonder."
"Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine."
"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous."
"They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!"
"I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather"
"good weatheris likegood women—it doesn’t always happenand when it doesit doesn’talways last."
Charles Bukowski, Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window
"She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom."
"I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise."
"Sudden changes are always acceptable for me. What a weather !! Happy !!"
"The sky's gray and there's mizzle. It's so soft on my skin--it's nothing like rain. It's even softer than the lightest drizzle! Lift my face up, so it can kiss my skin." The Panopticon"
"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"
"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."
"When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather."
"The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men."
"For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart."
"The scent of rain on a sultry spring evening is always an indulgence."
"First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing exultation, causing stalks to lie flat against the ground while the tougher branches of shrubs held themselves up and shrieked their defiance in the gusts. Then the first drops, cold and heavy, would plummet from the sky and burst on the ground."
"I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy."
"The true test of a warrior is how your 'stance' holds up after any 'circumstance'. Meaning, even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lightning or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail - time and time again."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting"
"It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination."
"To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,by what can't be it must be challenged..."
"If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!"
"You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind."
"Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a way to shine through to you."
"Power is a delicate thing. The most powerful storms on earth intensify rapidly, but dissipate just as fast if not faster."
"Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and dripping with sweat."
"After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy."
"She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean."
"I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another."
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