- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Age-Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 our judgment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 world in which you are living.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020