Lightning Quotes - Page 18

• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Buddhist

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• Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Cracks, Steel, Littles

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.265, Penguin

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• It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Illumination, Soul

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

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• She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.

  Marissa Meyer

  Magic, Bolts

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• There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clouds, Strikers, Happened

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• Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Revenge, Dark

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• Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Men, Lucky, Way

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.63, Anchor

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Wind, Lovers

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• There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Light, His Eyes

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.390, Macmillan

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• I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

  Andrea Gibson

  Ocean, Kissing, Storm

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• how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

  Elinor Glyn

  Pride, Vow, Defying

  Elinor Glyn (1907). “Three Weeks”

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• the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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• A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Ocean, School, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.67, Penguin

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• One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Doe, Flash

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• Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

  Karl Barth

  Faith, Gratitude, Echoes

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• I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Mind, Bangs

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• I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Deeds, Quiet

  Alexander Smith (1853). “Poems”, p.201

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• When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

  Ovid

  Doe, Strikes

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• We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Darkness, Together, Moments

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• The chance of a criminal getting caught,
  is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.

  Michael Peterson

  Criminals, Chance, Caught

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• Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.

  Steve Olson

  Nectar

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• Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Principles, Use

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• Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

  Horace

  Break Through, Gold, Stones

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• Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

  Horace

  Powerful, Blow, Rocks

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• The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mind, Brilliant, Obscure

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