Quotes by Clouds The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. Vasco Ronchi starscloudsfall Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability! Vera Nazarian patternsdifferentclouds Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. Victor Hugo blackcloudsnight Algebra applies to the clouds. Victor Hugo algebraapplicationclouds ...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life. Vikas Swarup monsoonsrainy-dayclouds Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. Victor Hugo womencloudsbeauty Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. Victor Hugo starsdarkclouds Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke. Victor Hugo eludetablesclouds The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. Victor Hugo sleepcloudsbird Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for a few short morning hours. Too soon the sun rose high in the sky & disappeared from view, leaving us bereft and staring at blue. Virginia C. Andrews bluecloudsmorning They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud. Virginia Huston namescloudsdeath Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds. Virgil upliftingevilclouds a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality. Vita Sackville-West cloudsbeautifulreality If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! Vladimir Mayakovsky wishcloudsmen If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers. Vladimir Mayakovsky sunsetcloudsmen The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf fightingcloudswar There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. Virginia Woolf starscloudsnight Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down. Virginia Woolf sharkscloudshands So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. Virginia Woolf cloudsmorningwind It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds W. G. Sebald perspectiveviewsclouds«5859606162636465666768»
