Overcast Quotes:

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Heart, Sky, Clouds, Storm Clouds, Overcast

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Positive, Happiness, Appreciation, Sunny Day, Sunny Disposition

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

- Ovid

topic: Sky, May, Prosperity, Overcast, Many Friends

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

- Cecil Day-Lewis

source: Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press

topic: Summer, Lying, Past, Overcast

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

- Joseph Addison

source: Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

topic: Morning, Fate, Clouds, Cato, Overcast

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

topic: God, Prayer, Clouds, Overcast, Fervent Prayer

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

- Tan Twan Eng

topic: Memories, Fall, Light, Overcast, Illuminating

The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

- Susanna Kaysen

topic: Girl, Lying, Light, Overcast, Girl Interrupted

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

topic: Wall, Winter, Past, Overcast, Peeking

This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

- John Clare

topic: Sweet, Fall, World, Tiptoes, Overcast

I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

- Jay London

topic: Clouds, People, Casting, Overcast

Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

- Mark Hart

source: Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.38, Franciscan Media

topic: Clouds, Views, Perspective, Storm Clouds, Overcast

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

topic: Circles, Burning, Moisture, Overcast

Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.

- Luci Swindoll

source: Luci Swindoll (1989). “You Bring the Confetti”, W Publishing Group

topic: Beauty, Laughter, Eye, Driveway, Overcast

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Inspirational, Pain, Flower, Pain And Pleasure, Overcast

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.493, Yale University Press

topic: Running, Clouds, Light, Overcast

It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.

- John Connolly

source: John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.899, Simon and Schuster

topic: Morning, Winter, Clouds, Overcast

Yes!--still I love thee: Time, who sets His signet on my brow, And dims my sunken eye, forgets, The heart he could not bow;-- Where love, that cannot perish, grows For one, Alas! that little knows How love may sometimes last; Like sunshine wasting in the skies When clouds are overcast.

- Rufus Dawes

topic: Heart, Eye, Sunshine, Overcast

In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the locals. The snow crunches under your boots and clings to your trousers, to the cuffs, and once you’re inside, the snow clings to you psyche, and eventually you have to go to the doctor. The past soaks into you in this weather because the present is missing almost entirely.

- Charles Baxter

source: Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.248, Vintage

topic: Overcast, Common Experience

The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

- Mary Wigman

source: Mary Wigman (1966). “The language of dance”

topic: Summer, Dance, Stars, Overcast, Happy Summer

Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

- Stephen Levine

source: Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.6, Anchor

topic: Clouds, Light, Shining, Blocked, Overcast

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

topic: Friendship, Sky, Sun, Overcast, Clear Skies

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Past, Way, Amir, Frigid, Overcast

Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

- Stephen R. Donaldson

source: Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

topic: Grief, Rain, Night, Stunned, Overcast

Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.

- Spike Milligan

topic: Morning, Class, Tourists, Overcast

There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

- Fred Armisen

source: "'Portlandia' Duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Discuss the Secrets to the Cult Show's Success". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. February 27, 2014.

topic: Coffee, Cities, Portland, Overcast

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Sunshine, Sky, Guilt, Overcast

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine...

- Plotinus

source: Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.47, Hayes Barton Press

topic: Cutting, Light, Perfect, Overcast

Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.

- Leif Enger

source: Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

topic: Easter, Spring, Long, Peeping, Overcast