Essays, Art and Plays by Dan

Here are 20 memorable quotations about clouds from poets, writers, philosophers, and thinkers.

1. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
   — Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
2. “Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.”
   — Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
3. “The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”
   — Eckhart Tolle
4. “You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”
   — Eckhart Tolle
5. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
   — Maya Angelou
6. “The clouds – the only birds that never sleep.”
   — Victor Hugo
7. “We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine.”
   — Alice Meynell
8. “Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”
   — Sarah McLachlan
9. “Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.”
   — Don Marquis
10. “The more clouds you have in your sky, the more colourful sunset it will be.”
    — Sajal Sazzad
11. “There is divinity in the clouds.”
    — Lailah Gifty Akita
12. “No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!”
    — Mehmet Murat İldan
13. “Dance with the clouds.”
    — A.D. Posey
14. “Be the sun breaking through the clouds.”
    — A.D. Posey
15. “The mind is subject to moods, as the shadows of clouds pass over the earth.”
    — Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 23 July 1851
16. “You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”
    — Henry David Thoreau
17. “The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless.”
    — Jeb Dickerson
18. “The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.”
    — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
19. “I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.”
    — S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders
20. “There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’”
    — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

These quotations reveal how clouds have inspired writers and artists in very different ways: as weather, metaphor, illumination, uncertainty, impermanence, and simply as objects worthy of attention in their own right.