Quotes about rain

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

— Don Delillo

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.

— Dame Edith Sitwell

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another. The gathering in of the clouds with the last rush and dying breath of the wind, and then the regular dripping of twigs and leaves the country over, the impression of inward comfort and Sociableness, the drenched stubble and trees that drop beads on you as you pass, their dim outline seen through the rain on all sides drooping in sympathy with yourself. These are my undisputed territory. This is Nature's English comfort.

— Henry David Thoreau

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

— John Updike

Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Those who hate rain hate life.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is raining, perhaps clouds voiding their deepest longings! Upon the streams I have drove those paper boats to the farthest. Listening to the lonely drops of rain I am trying in vain to sing melodious, Alas the voice ends deep within! Were you the song within? O my dear, but I know you are silence that sings wordless, a melody hummed nameless!

— Preeth Nambiar

Within this raindrop there must be a heart- a heart that weeps the pain of longing. I have her in my palm where the silvery rays of the morn reflect the beauty of the whole cosmos and I kiss her with all my yearning!

— Preeth Nambiar