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Clouds Quotes

Images of sky, light, and rising above.

These Light quotes use clouds as a recurring image, from genius breaking through obscurity to a pilot chasing a gap of blue sky and the idea of rising above the clouds toward something greater.

The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.

Quotes by Adriana Trigiani

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

Quotes by Adam Weishaupt

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds...

Quotes by Adam Hamilton

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Abraham Lincoln

Earth Quotes

When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray...

Quotes by Yves Rossy

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

Quotes by Yayoi Kusama

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Quotes by Washington Irving

Life Quotes

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

Quotes by Tommy Caldwell

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Quotes by Tom Goodman-Hill

Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is...

Quotes by Timothee Chalamet

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit...

Quotes by Thérèse of Lisieux

I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a...

Quotes by Theo Jansen

Light Quotes

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Quotes by Susanna Moodie

We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings.

Quotes by Sunita Williams

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

Quotes by Simon Newcomb

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat...

Quotes by Shenaz Treasury

Look Quotes

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying...

Quotes by Scott Anderson

Frequently Asked Questions

What imagery defines this Clouds quote collection?
It's mostly about clouds as a metaphor for rising above difficulty or origin. One quote describes genius shooting its rays out from among the clouds before that layer rolls away, and another imagines rising above the clouds and climbing toward Heaven to look back on a finished, beautiful life.
Is there a quote about flying through clouds literally?
Yes, one describes flying a fighter jet through a dark layer of clouds toward a single blue hole where sunlight breaks through, heading vertically toward the light. It's one of the more vivid, physically grounded lines in the set.
Does this collection reference any classic or poetic sources?
One quote has a distinctly poetic, older cadence, describing birth as a sleep and a forgetting, arriving "trailing clouds of glory" rather than in utter nakedness or forgetfulness — language associated with Romantic-era poetry on the soul's origins.
Why would someone look for clouds-themed quotes?
Clouds tend to symbolize obstacles giving way to clarity, which makes this set useful for reflective or inspirational captions. It pairs naturally with Light quotes for the breaking-through imagery and Earth quotes for the rising-above framing.
What other topics go well with Clouds quotes?
For the more aspirational, life-reflection angle found in the Heaven and "beautiful life" quote, Life quotes and Look quotes complement this collection well.

Continue the view from above with our Look quotes and Earth quotes.