Honore de Balzac – Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God
According to French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850), clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. Indeed, clouds inspire artists and photographers, poets and writers to think about eternity, life and existence. Here is a set of beautiful images and quotes about clouds. And the first one belongs to Henry David Thoreau – “It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise”.
When you’re obsessive, … it’s like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds. Jonny Wilkinson
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. R. IngersollThe poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I’ve seen ecstasy or something. Rita DoveHuman spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. Herbert SimonOne who never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed. Robert BrowningIf it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. Jerzy KosinskiNever trust any complicated cocktail that reminds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. Terry PrachettLandscape with CloudsGray skies are just clouds passing over. Duke EllingtonEnlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. Adam WeishauptOver the hillsHeavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Christopher MorleyI prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. Robert WyattAll it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive – it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Paris HiltonI know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above. William Butler YeatsThere have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds. Carl SandburgOur birth is trailing clouds of glory do we come. William WordsworthCourtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization. Bryant H. McGillMirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment. Joseph AddisonDark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity. Rick PerryClouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. Honore De BalzacThe myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. Albert CamusClouds and winds, stars and flowers, – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett MardenRest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass … watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John LubbockThe water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. ChanakyaGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. Martin LutherLo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. Alexander PopeTo penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. Thomas JeffersonThere are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. G. K. ChestertonMay your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward AbbeyI have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. Mike TysonThe evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Lord ByronClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath TagoreYou plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Saint Augustine
