I have a bad habit of stopping in the middle of sidewalks. Not for anything dramatic — just clouds. The other day I was late for lunch because a particularly theatrical cumulus decided to look like a ship, and honestly, I’d do it again. Cloud-watching is the cheapest hobby I own and the only one that has never once disappointed me.
These 60 clouds quotes are the ones I wrote for fellow sky-gazers — people who check the horizon before they check their phones, who have strong opinions about sunsets, and who understand that a cloudy day is not a wasted day. Some are short enough to drop under a photo, some are the kind you read out loud to whoever is lying on the grass next to you, and all of them are original lines I’d actually say myself.
So grab a patch of grass, or at least a window, and scroll slowly. The clouds aren’t in any hurry, and for the next few minutes, neither should you be.
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion, this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.” – Richard Bach
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.” – Benoit Mandelbrot
A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.” ― Terri Guillemets
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” – William Arthur Ward
A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.” – Amit Ray
A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.” – J. K. Rowling
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
A parade of clouds and little puffs behind them they follow as their Mother” – Julia Hartwig
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.” – Leonard Louis Levinson
A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.” – Moonshine Noire
A smile will even make the darkest of clouds shine.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.” – Pythagoras
Afflictive emotions – our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear – can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.” – Dalai Lama
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.” – Susanna Moodie
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.” – Richard Brautigan
And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.” – Emily Bronte
Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.” – Cato the Elder
At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.” – David Mitchell
At times we wish that these clouds never came our way for all they bring with them is misery but on others they bring relief. It is their absence that is difficult to get by, to fill, for autumn is near. But then seasons do change.” ― Chirag Tulsiani
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Unknown
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.” – Louisa May Alcott
Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.” – M.F. Moonzajer
Be the rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
Be the sun breaking through the clouds.” – A.D. Posey
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” – Lord Byron
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.” ― Barbara Walters
Behind every cloud is another cloud.” – Judy Garland
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.” – Abraham Lincoln
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I’ve looked at clouds that way.” – Joni Mitchell
Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun…Life is strange and wondrous…” – Virginia Alison
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!” – Joseph Conrad
But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.” – Elizabeth Gaskell
But tonight is a gusty, hurrying night . . . even the clouds racing over the sky are in a hurry and the moonlight that gushes out between them is in a hurry to flood the world.” – L.M. Montgomery
Changes are like clouds on the sky- come and go. Leadership is like riding on a plane to enjoy the clouds.” – Amit Ray
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. – Alexander Pope
Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.” – George Carlin
Clouds add character to the heavens.” – Dahi Tamara Koch
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.” – Mary Todd Lincoln
Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.” – John F. Carlson
Clouds are high flying Fog” – Gaurav Rao
Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.” – Robin Williams
Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!” – Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Clouds are the most egalitarian of nature’s displays, since each one of us has a good view of them, so it really doesn’t matter where you are.” – Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Clouds are the sky’s imagination.” – Terri Guillemets
Clouds can never hide the sun forever; so don’t complain about clouds but never forget to welcome the sun.” – Debasish Mridha
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.” – Demosthenes
Clouds come and go, the mountain remains.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.” – Roger Ebert
Clouds float in the same pattern only once.” – Wayne Shorter
Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.” – Thomas Love Peacock
Clouds suit my mood just fine.” – Marie Lu
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” – Honore de Balzac
Clouds, they make a painting out of the sky.” – Marty Rubin
Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.” – Israelmore Ayivor
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.” – Bryant H. McGill
Dance with the clouds.” – Adrienne Posey
Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.” – Rabindranath Tagore
Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.” – Antonia Perdu
Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? By th’ mass and ’tis, like a camel indeed. Methinks it is like a weasel. It is backed like a weasel. Or like a whale. Very like a whale.” – William Shakespeare
Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.” – Rumi
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.” – Anais Nin
Dream’s elixir veered between light and clouds to save the blue..” – Munia Khan
Each cloud we burst, each moon we drum, each sun we dance is an essential part of the wheel. Though they are not the whole circle of our being. The whole is incalculable.” – Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.” – Rumi
Even the darkest of clouds can’t put a downer on things! Still just as good!” – Unknown
Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.” – Mark Nepo
Even when the sky is filled with clouds the sun still shines above.” – Unknown
Ever changing clouds paint portraits on the sky, and each person sees a different image.” – Rhonda Savage Thompson
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.” – Don Marquis
Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.” – Diane Greene
Every silver lining has a cloud.” – Mary Kay Ash
Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.” – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Nhat Hanh
Fill the world with acid rain clouds and you will be in a new era of evolution, due to the changed electromagnetic frequencies emissions and light emissions from the lightning clouds. A new era of global environmental radiation!” – Steven Magee
For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds.” – Kamila Shamsie
For it is when calm clouds gather that thunder is made.” – Soroosh Shahrivar
Go up in a big airplane. Go high enough, and you will see the radiation rainbow interference ring around the shadow of the airplane on the clouds below.” – Steven Magee
God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home” – Srinidhi.R
God is a cloud from which rain fell.” – Dejan Stojanovic
God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.” – Sathya Sai Baba
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.” – Martin Luther
Got my head in the clouds and I can’t come down” – Unknown
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” – Frank Gifford
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.” – Sarah McLachlan
Happiness lives in every corner of your home and if you are homeless, it lives under the leaves of trees, hiding beneath the sky’s cloudiness. All you need to do is to find it with patience.” – Munia Khan
Having your head in the clouds is not a bad thing… as long as you take advantage of the inspiration you find while you’re there.” – Misty Dawn Seidel
He has his head in the clouds. He must live in a skyscraper.” – Ljupka Cvetanova
He stepped outside and looked up at the stars swimming in schools through the wind-driven clouds.” – John Steinbeck
He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.” – Mia Couto
Heavy clouds were putting out the stars” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” – Christopher Morley
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!” – A. A. Milne
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.” – Louisa May Alcott
I bow in reverence to the white cloud.” – Li Bai
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.” – Jack Kerouac
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.” – Bob Dylan
I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.” – Ikkyu
I could stare at this forever” – Unknown
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.” – Elizabeth Taylor
I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.” – Sanober Khan
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.” – William Butler Yeats
I live there…Far above the song-filled clouds, where the dewdrops touch my skin so bare I live there.” – Sanober Khan
I love white clouds and blue sky.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.” – Charles Lindbergh
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.” – Robert Wyatt
I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.” – Renee Zellweger
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.” – Daniel Defoe
I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.” – John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.” – Louis Armstrong
I set my rainbow in the cloud.” – Unknown
I think the most heavenly food is fluffy white clouds.” ― Jarod Kintz
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” – William Wordsworth
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.” – Brendan Gill
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.” – Abraham Cowley
If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.” – Matthew Quick
If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I’m in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.” – Chris Evert
If you can fly above the cloud of politics, the storm is not for you.” – Harrish Sairaman
If you don’t despise the world under the clouds when you rise above the clouds, then it means you deserved to rise!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations.” – Charles M. Schulz
In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.” – Khalil Gibran
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.” – Jerzy Kosinski
In the end we are all just clouds wandering around without fighting off the winds.” – Sijdah Hussain
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
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.” – Henry David Thoreau
It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.” – J.D. Stroube
It’s a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.” – Frank Borman
I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” – Mike Tyson
Keep your eye in the clouds, not in the crowds.” – Unknown
Let’s build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.” – Bob Ross
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaimingWow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson
Life…is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions.” – Naguib Mahfouz
Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.” – Edward Abbey
Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.” – D.S. Mixell
Look at that,’ she whispered, and then after a moment: ‘I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lose yourself. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.” – Rumi
Love is like the clouds of the sky. Through our prayers, they tell us where we are going.” – Alan Maiccon
Manna will definitely fall from above, but it’s gonna fall for those who cultivatedmanner farms” on the clouds.” – Israelmore Ayivor
May I create plain fields by collecting clouds and bedeck them with arching rainbows.” – Suman Pokhrel
May you feel love unclouded and unjaded by experience.” – Ben Ditmars
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” – Edward Abbey
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.” – Gautama Buddha
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
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” – Joseph Addison
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel’s face.” – Lydia Maria Child
My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.” – Kelly Clarkson
My soul must reach into the clouds and touch the beauty of madness.” – Melody Lee
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never lose hope. The darkest clouds precede the loveliest rain!” – Avijeet Das
No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter how dark your cloud is; sun in you will always outshine this darkness” – gaurav rao
No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.” – Ray Bradbury
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.” – Francis Parkman
Not if it involves breaking the law. Not if you don’t want me to cloud up and rain all over you.” – Bill Pronzini
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.” – Augustus Hare
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.” – Chanakya
One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.” – Colum McCann
Only the clouds can tell where hidden sun-rays dwell” – Munia Khan
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.” – William Wordsworth
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” – Nhat Hanh
Poetry resembles these clouds; it dwells somewhere in between the melancholy and the answers.” – Misbah Khan
Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.” – Tahereh Mafi
Raining cannot blossom without the cloud.” – Unknown
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don’t shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock
Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds;hovering ancient land.” – Aniruddha Sastikar
Sad faces are reflected in clouds of despair, but happy faces are what bathes our emotions in happiness.” – Anthony T. Hincks
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She danced wild across the evening sky, dispersing clouds with the frill of her gown.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
She gathered the books like clouds and words poured down like rain.” – Markus Zusak
She is as gentle as a cloud but loves with a fury of a storm.” – JmStorm
She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.” – John Green
She’s as gentle as a cloud but loves with a fury of a storm.” – Unknown
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.” – Thomas Otway
Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.” – John Boehner
Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it’s a brighter day.” – Anonymous
Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world’s wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.” – Flavia Weedn
Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent cloud-edges.” – D. H. Lawrence
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.” – Anonymous
Sometimes, life lets you float amongst the clouds rather than sail upon the waters.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Storm clouds will always ignite the darker side of my passion.” – Anthony T.Hincks
Stromatolites are the imitators of the clouds above.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Sunlight will always follow in a clouds wake.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Tears are what makes us one with the clouds.” – Anthony T. Hincks
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.” – William Shakespeare
That’s what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.” – Rajneesh
The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.” – Leonardo da Vinci
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be?–it is the same the angels breathe.” – Mark Twain
The beauty of white clouds: Every morning brings new clouds and sunshine.” ― Lailah Gfty Akita
The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.” – Bob Woodward
The clouds. The only birds that never sleep.” – Victor Hugo
The clouds and thunder cannot surpass, sun and its shine; similarly, the ignorance fails to prevail upon knowledge.” – Ehsan Sehgal
The clouds are the extreme effort of Heaven to answer to Earth.” – Alan Maiccon
The clouds don’t overthink; they just drift.” – Avijeet Das
The clouds in his face clear away instantly, and he is sunny and bright again.” – Jenny Han
The clouds made their own images. Looking at them I could fill in the pages.” – Suyasha Subedi
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.” – Edward Young
The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.” – Lauren DeStefano
The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.” – Keri Hulme
The days which bracketed hurricanes were painful in their clarity, sharp edge clouds, blue sky hard as a cop’s eyes.” – N.K. Jemisin
The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now!” – John McLeod
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.” – Ruth Bernhard
The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.” – William Hurrell Mallock
The moon will light the clouds, just as the tide shall shape the sand.” – Anthony T. Hincks
The passing clouds outside the window form the perfect backdrop for wavering frames I see moving inside my mind.” – Pavitraa Parthasarathy
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I’ve seen ecstasy or something.” – Rita Dove
The ripples in the clouds mimic the torment in the sky.” – Anthony T. Hincks
The ripples within the clouds shall lead us to the beach in the sky.” – Anthony T. Hincks
The road of life is filled with sunshine and clouds, black and white, triumphs and tragedies. As we continue down the road, we decide which things we bring with us, and which we leave in the rear-view mirror.” – Julie-Anne
The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.” – Dan Millman
The Secret of a Human Bean is to do everything from the Heart and Think that You have the Knowledge to be Above the Clouds.” – Jan Jansen
The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go.” – Rachel Joyce
The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days.” – Munia Khan
The sky is postcard dreamy now, the clouds less full of rain, the sun a little stronger every day.” – Kathleen Glasgow
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation… such is the nature of art.”― Jeb Dickerson
The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds.” – Jorge Luis Borges
The sun always shines above the clouds.” – Paul F. Davis
The sundisk, covered, shines not for people to see, One cannot live when clouds conceal.” – Miriam Lichtheim
The water was a bright, French blue this morning and the surface echoed the clouds in the sky in the reflection.” – Sharon Brubaker
The world made me cold. You made me water. One day we’ll be clouds.” – pleasefindthis
The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.” – Sara Sheridan
Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.” – Kristin Cashore
There are no mighty mountains for the universe, because there are no mountains for the universe, no rivers, no sun and no clouds! There is only universe for the universe, just a single entity!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.” – T.F. Hodge
There is divinity in the clouds.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
There may be clouds in the sky, and rain may be falling, but this doesn’t mean the sun has stopped shining.” – Connor Chalfant
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me’.” – Virginia Woolf
There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow.” – Emily M. Danforth
There’s a bright spot in every dark cloud.” – Bruce Beresford
There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can’t see everything.” – Kamenashi Kazuya
They lay there, two starfish on a galactic beach, the lights twinkling and the pink and blue clouds hovering like distant nebulae.” – Cory Ingram
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.” – Adam Weishaupt
This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned slowly, and it was the single most beautiful thing, that I started to cry.” – Erika B.
Those clouds are angels’ robes.” – Charles Kingsley
Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.” – Yosa Buson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.” – Thomas Jefferson
To say goodbye, is to die a little. To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.” – Nabil TOUSSI
Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.” – Paul Russell
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.” – Italo Calvino
Tried to forget me. You’ll think of me every time you see clouds” – Jordan Hoechlin
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
Umbrellas raining upon me, as these cloudy tears give me shelter.” – Anthony Liccione
Wandering clouds – Short spells of rain, Ah Poetry!” – Meeta Ahluwalia
Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.” – Eckhart Tolle
We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can’t shine through.” – Miranda Kerr
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.” – Paul Tillich
We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” – Condoleezza Rice
We fell in love with the amazing view of the cloud.” – Unknown
We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds” – Tiffanie DeBartolo
We need motivation…for those dark clouds days and… foxes and wolfs lurking around….” – Deyth Banger
We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.” – Walter Scott
We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.” – Gavin Pretor-Pinney
We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.” – Alice Meynell
Were I a cloud I’d gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where.” – Robert Bridges
What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.” – Marty Rubin
Whatever the clouds plan to do; I always trust in the sun which never fails to come out” – Munia Khan
When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the earth’s refreshed by frequent showers.” ― Anonymous
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.” ― Antonio Porchia
When people close to me lie to me or try manipulating me, I feel like I know how the sun feels when the clouds steal the sun’s thunder.” – Tammy Wooster
When people look at clouds they do not see their real shape, which is no shape at all, or every shape, because they are constantly changing. They see whatever it is that their heart yearns for.” – Jose Eduardo Agualusa
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
When the clouds away the sun will shine.” – Anthony T. Hincks
When the clouds cover the night sky, all I have to do is look into your eyes to see what the heavens look like,” – Anthony T. Hincks.
When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.” – Henry Ward Beecher
When we feel stuck, look at the sky. The clouds remind us that everything changes.” – Unknown
When you are above the clouds, you go beyond the foolishness of the World and find peace!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
When you become a raindrop in your mind Thunder is the closest friend you may find Wind lashed trees, dark clouds, lightning or the dust Everything you will bear once you adjust” – Munia Khan
When your star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.” – Shunryu Suzuki
who paints the sky will walk on clouds” – Stefano Bosis
Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.” – Gautama Buddha
Why do I love clouds? Because you can’t save a cloud like you can save a leaf or a flower or a rock – clouds are now.” – Terri Guillemets
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.” – Elbert Hubbard
Yesterday I inhaled a cloud, and immediately my eyes started raining.”― Jarod Kintz
Yesterday I soared above the clouds. Today I’ll walk the earth again.” – Anthony T.Hincks
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.” – Eckhart Tolle
You can’t be living always in the promise of the clouds; it must rain now. Leave the talking and live by walking… It will yield an indelible impact!” – Israelmore Ayivor
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.” – Henry Thoreau
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.” – Dale Carnegie
You’ll never get anywhere with your head in the clouds if you don’t turn those dreams into present-day forward motion. Show gratitude for where you came by not regretting what you could’ve and should’ve done today.” – Richie Norton
“Clouds are the sky’s mood swings.” — Unknown
“I lie on the grass and let the clouds do the talking.” — Unknown
“That one looks exactly like my Monday. Big, gray, and slow.” — Unknown
“Clouds never ask permission. They just drift.” — Unknown
“The sky is free art, and the clouds are the exhibition.” — Unknown
“I have named more clouds than I have answered emails.” — Unknown
“A cloudy day is just the sky thinking things over.” — Unknown
“Some people count sheep. I count cloud shapes.” — Unknown
“Clouds move. I sit still. Somehow we’re both traveling.” — Unknown
“The best show in town is free and it’s on right above you.” — Unknown
“My grandfather taught me the clouds are never the same twice.” — Unknown
“Storm clouds gather like gossip. Ignore them and they pass.” — Unknown
“Fluffy clouds make me want to cancel everything.” — Unknown
“The sky never runs out of ideas.” — Unknown
“Cloud-watching is the only meeting I’ll never skip.” — Unknown
“Tall clouds mean big weather. Tall dreams mean the same.” — Unknown
“I trust a person who still looks up.” — Unknown
“That cloud has been traveling all day and it doesn’t look tired.” — Unknown
“Sunsets are just clouds showing off their good side.” — Unknown
“Nobody ever took a bad photo of a great cloud.” — Unknown
“The clouds were doing Shakespeare today and I had front-row grass.” — Unknown
“A mackerel sky means the fish are biting somewhere.” — Unknown
“Clouds are proof that change can be beautiful.” — Unknown
“I asked the clouds for advice. They said keep drifting.” — Unknown
“Every cloud has a silver lining, but I’d settle for a nap under one.” — Unknown
“Low clouds, slow day. My favorite equation.” — Unknown
“The contrail reminded me someone else is headed somewhere.” — Unknown
“Clouds don’t compete with the sun. They just share the stage.” — Unknown
“Rain clouds have feelings too. They just cry more.” — Unknown
“I once spent an hour watching one cloud become three.” — Unknown
“Pink clouds at dusk make every parking lot look romantic.” — Unknown
“The sky painted all morning and nobody clapped.” — Unknown
“Clouds are the original slow television.” — Unknown
“A sky full of clouds is a sky full of maybes.” — Unknown
“I don’t need a reason to stare at clouds. That’s the whole point.” — Unknown
“That dark one looks like it has something to say.” — Unknown
“Clouds gather. So do good friends.” — Unknown
“The best clouds are the ones you almost miss.” — Unknown
“My phone can wait. The clouds can’t.” — Unknown
“A cloud is just water with a good imagination.” — Unknown
“The clouds are rehearsing something big over the lake.” — Unknown
“Gray skies never stopped a good picnic. Rain did, but not the sky.” — Unknown
“I waved at a cloud today. It kept going. Fair enough.” — Unknown
“Cloud shadows race across the hills and I want to chase them.” — Unknown
“The clouds looked heavy, so I gave them the day off in my mind.” — Unknown
“Cumulus. The only word I remember from science class.” — Unknown
“Clouds taught me that big things can be soft.” — Unknown
“One cloud, two clouds, gone by three.” — Unknown
“The morning sky was blank. By noon, a masterpiece.” — Unknown
“I collect cloud shapes like other people collect stamps.” — Unknown
“Dark clouds are just the sky clearing its throat.” — Unknown
“Clouds never worry about being on time.” — Unknown
“The sky is busiest when it looks like it’s doing nothing.” — Unknown
“That cloud looked like a dragon, then a dog, then nothing at all.” — Unknown
“Cloud-watching works best with someone who points too.” — Unknown
“I have never once regretted ten minutes spent watching clouds.” — Unknown
“The clouds are the sky’s way of saying slow down.” — Unknown
“A flat gray sky is just a blank page.” — Unknown
“Clouds drift east and take my worries with them.” — Unknown
“Tomorrow’s sky will be different. That’s the deal, and it’s a good one.” — Unknown




















If even one of these clouds quotes made you glance at the sky, this collection did its job. I wrote them on slow afternoons, during long flights, and once in a parking lot where the sunset refused to be ignored — and I like to think a little of that unhurried looking made it into every line.
Before you drift back to your day, do me a favor: bookmark this page and send it to the one friend who always points at the sky first. Good clouds quotes are meant to be passed around like sunscreen at a picnic, and your share is what keeps this little corner of the internet floating.
And when the sky gets moody again, come back for more — or check out our storm quotes for stormy-day words and our nature quotes for quotes about slowing down and looking up.
Clouds Quotes FAQs
What are the best clouds quotes for Instagram captions?
Short, visual lines win on Instagram. “Clouds are the sky’s mood swings.” fits any moody-sky photo, while “Sunsets are just clouds showing off their good side.” pairs perfectly with golden-hour shots. Keep the caption to one line, let the photo breathe, and skip the hashtag pile — three honest tags beat thirty desperate ones.
Why do people love quotes about clouds so much?
Because clouds are the one thing everyone shares. You and a stranger on another continent are looking at the same sky doing the same slow performance, and a good clouds quote puts words to that small, shared wonder. They work for daydreamers, romantics, and anyone who has ever laid on the grass instead of getting up.
What do clouds symbolize in quotes and sayings?
Clouds usually stand for change, imagination, and freedom from the ground — feelings rather than facts. A dark cloud signals worry or grief; a bright, drifting one signals possibility and lightness. Unlike most symbols, clouds never sit still, so they lend themselves to quotes about letting go, moving on, and refusing to be pinned down.
What are some good cloudy day quotes?
Cloudy days have their own charm, and the best quotes lean into it: “A cloudy day is just the sky thinking things over.” or “A flat gray sky is just a blank page.” These lines reframe the gray as cozy and thoughtful instead of gloomy, which is why people share them when the sun doesn’t show up.
How can I use clouds quotes in a greeting card or gift?
Match the line to the moment. For a thinking-of-you note, “I have never once regretted ten minutes spent watching clouds.” reads warm and personal. For someone going through a rough patch, “Clouds drift east and take my worries with them.” lands gently. Handwrite it — a cloud quote in your own handwriting beats any printed card.
Where can I find more quotes like these?
Right here — this collection was written from scratch for cloud lovers, and our related weather and nature quote collections cover storms, rain, and starry nights. Bookmark this page and come back when the sky looks interesting; we add fresh, hand-picked quotes regularly instead of recycling the same tired lines everyone else posts.
