“It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.”

“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”

“Raindrops are nothing more than a lullaby for the restless soul.”

“Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul…Tis my sunshine right after the rainWhen my ravishing rays unfold.”

“If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God’s rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land.”

“God is willing to help you with the rain if only you can sow your crops.”

“My dream, I have faith in you! Tell me that reality won’t vanquish you; it won’t crush my lively spirit into wafts of sorrowful aches, that’s what you should vow.I remember you, you used to make me smile for a hopeI have always desired,it made my pain worth its dreadfulness.I waited for the sunshine andit made me love and enjoy the rain.We were trapped by dense clouds, now I think I am free.. to breathe again.Like the sea waves,hope visits my shorecarrying the light for the frozen heartand the darkened soul.”

“I lay awake listening to the rain, and at first it was as pleasant to my ear and my mind as it had long been desired; but before I fell asleep it had become a majestic and finally a terrible thing, instead of a sweet sound and symbol. It was accusing and trying me and passing judgment. Long I lay still under the sentence, listening to the rain, and then at last listening to words which seemed to be spoken by a ghostly double beside me. He was muttering: The all-night rain puts out summer like a torch. In the heavy, black rain falling straight from invisible, dark sky to invisible, dark earth the heat of summer is annihilated, the splendour is dead, the summer is gone. The midnight rain buries it away where it has buried all sound but its own. I am alone in the dark still night, and my ear listens to the rain piping in the gutters and roaring softly in the trees of the world. Even so will the rain fall darkly upon the grass over the grave when my ears can hear it no more…The summer is gone, and never can it return. There will never be any summer any more, and I am weary of everything… I am alone.The truth is that the rain falls for ever and I am melting into it. Black and monotonously sounding is the midnight and solitude of the rain. In a little while or in an age – for it is all one – I shall know the full truth of the words I used to love, I knew not why, in my days of nature, in the days before the rain: ‘Blessed are the dead that the rain rains on.”

“in the afterglowof an evening raini lay downin the grass and think of youmy body acheslike an after-kissbreaking in soft firesand wildflowersmy dear, i will always bethis tender for you.”

“كان مجرد برق أمّلني بنزول المطر بعد فترة جفاف طويل، إلا أن السماء خذلتني مرة أخرى.”

“The rain begins with a single drop”