Quotes about lightning
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Franz Grillparzer -
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Clint Eastwood -
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
George Carlin -
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Virginia Alison -
And somewhere amidst the storm raging inside, between the twilight of lust and desire, entwined within the whirlwind of swirling emotions, it happened. In one lightning strike, the illusion crumbled. For I realised the naked truth...
Munia Khan -
The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart
Elyne Mitchell - Silver Brumby Kingdom
I? I am the wind,’ said Thowra. ‘I come, I pass, and I am gone.’ The strange feathers moved up and down, the strange voice said tartly: ‘And are your sons the same?’ ‘My son is the lightning that strikes through the black night. My grandson is light that pierces the dark sky at dawning.’ ‘Ah,’ said the first emu, ‘and we know your daughter is the snow that falls softly from above and clothes the world in white. You want but the rainbow — that is and was and never will be, and is yet the promise
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts at pouting. No one broods like Mother Nature, hence she steals all the attention I was sulking after.
Lailah GiftyAkita -
The four L's: Love Light Life Liberty!!
Sherman Alexie -
So Lightning says to Mud,“What would happen if I struck your blood?”And Mud says, “Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain’t lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring.
Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon
Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.
R.K. Cowles -
Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.
Cory Doctorow - Little Brother
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
Carew Papritz - his Final Gift
I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . .
Mark Twain -
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Erik Tanghe -
Lightning can best be seen in the dark...Bright persons do best in bad circumstances
Donna Lynn Hope -
If it’s danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.
Human Angels - We are human angels
When we recognize that our personal good coincides with the Good of everyone, our inner light is turned on: at this point, when a human being becomes a Human Angel, their light, like a beacon, shines all around.The more lights are lit, the more humanity will be enlightened in these dark times, when the world of the ego, driven to its extreme, has begun its dramatic collapse.
Jennifer Bosworth -
So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.
Melyssa Winchester - Take Me with You
The both of us, we're individual parts on our own. She's the thunder and lightning and I'm the rain. It's only when we come together that it's right.We become the perfect storm. (Eric Carmen)
Goitsemang Mvula -
Lightning doesn't strike through a cave
Old Farmer's Almanac -
Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!
Richard Adams - Watership Down
At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge thing were being ripped to pieces close above, which deepened and turned to enormous blows of dissolution. Then the rain fell like a waterfall. In a few seconds the ground was covered with water and over it, to a height of inches, rose a haze formed
Jean-François Beauchemin -
The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.
Rick Riordan - The Lightning Thief
I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?
J.E. Haldeman - Versions of Violence
I dare us to give up – maybe we’ll reach nirvana by the time we’re sixty.
Victoria Aveyard - Glass Sword
When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
Victoria Aveyard - Glass Sword
Lightning has no mercy.
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.
Dominic Riccitello -
I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.
Anthony Liccione -
It was uncontrollable, overpowered by others, these colors within me, staring out at a black and white world; without spurning about, wanting to rule, too much negligence, they left me no choice, but to surrender. It was time, had to crash the lightning, and bow to the rain, where promises have broken, and pain still reigns. Had to give up myself and bring life to the world, had to. Dye
Munia Khan -
In a world of lovelightning and rainbow are lovers now. They arc and strike upon the horizon of credence to rise above their cloudy vow
Muhammad Imran Hasan -
Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life.... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take....
Lightning Claire Farron FF13 -
It's not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do.
J.R.R. Tolkien -
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!
Matshona Dhliwayo -
It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.
John Green -
The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.
Munia Khan -
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
Richie Norton -
Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.
Victoria Aveyard -
Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.
Visar Zhiti - The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
The forest has shrunkAnd fear has expanded,The forests have dwindled,There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned.
Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow
I took my friend’s hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our hair, we danced, laughing with joy, through the rain and towards the school, the lightning showing us our path with its powerful light.
Will Advise - Nothing is here...
If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Heavenly Father, let there be light in every dark corner.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The light and the stars guide my way.
Raphael Zernoff -
Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.
April Mae Monterrosa -
I love rainstorms...the thunder, lightning, wind, all of it. So much going on at once, so many emotions...just like me.
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.
Visar Zhiti - The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
SOWING LIGHTNINGSeizeBolts of lightning from the skyAnd plant them in fields of life.They will grow like tender sprouts of fire.Charge somber thoughtsWith unexpected flash,You, my lightning in the soil!
Amit Ray -
You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.
Lao Tzu -
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
Jeri Smith-Ready - Requiem for the Devil
Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough!
Chuck Klosterman - Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
George Carlin -
Electricity is really just organized lightning
Neil Gaiman -
I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittently, some so close to me I could see they were burning green as they flew, and some further away, who seemed to be flashing white.And in the sky above them a continual roil of distant summer lightning (the storm distant enough that it was silent) burned and flashed and illuminated the clouds. It seem
Clint Eastwood -
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
Jonathan Renshaw - Dawn of Wonder
First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing exultation, causing stalks to lie flat against the ground while the tougher branches of shrubs held themselves up and shrieked their defiance in the gusts. Then the first drops, cold and heavy, would plummet from the sky and burst on the ground.
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?
Charlotte Brontë -
At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the being I was always lulling, and stirred up a craving cry I could not satisfy. One night a thunder-storm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our beds: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints. As for me, the tempest took hold of me with tyranny: I was roughly roused and obliged to live. I got up and dressed myself, and creeping out
Patricia Robin Woodruff -
I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -
Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug.
Munia Khan -
Lightning hides the colour of night
Sara Sheridan -
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.
John Mark Green -
Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if other people can see the flashes through my skin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.