Quotes About Lightning

He suffers with man as some firm-souled man suffers with the woman he but loves the better because she is extravagant and fickle. His descending power is neither the winding nor the straight line but zigzag, illuminating the passive and active properties, the tree's two sorts of fruit: it is the sudden lightning, for all his acts of power are instantaneous.

The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell from the air ringing like the chime of an iron shoe...

A long time ago the lightening was practicing Something I thought was easy

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

As the last of the debris fell behind her and the crash of thunder rolled away through the city, as she came to the east end of the park, the once-dark sky paled, abruptly glaucous, and cataracts of rain fell hard, fat droplets hissing through the trees and grass, snapping off the pavement, plinking the metal hoods on trash cans, carrying with them the faint bleachy odor of ozone, a form of oxygen created by lightning's alchemy.

Rain was roaring on the tin roof now, and lightning struck close by, blue-white and sharp with ozone. We rode it together, forked and light-blind, breathless, and the thunder rolled through our bones.

Dry creek glimpsed by lightning

The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

Zeus, ruler of the gods.

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.

Hers were the pale gray that made you think of nightfall and silver bullets and the edge of winter. The color that filled the sky before it was torn in half by lightening.

We swam in sunshine and in rain; we swam in the morning, when the sea was sluggish as soup, we swam at night, the water flowing over our arms like undulations of black satin; one afternoon we stayed in the water during a thunderstorm, and a fork of lightning struck the surface of the sea so closer to us we heard the crackle of it and smelt the burnt air.

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Life, he told me, was like a fork of lightning. He could see exactly where one decision violently parted company with another and a new future flared up before him.

La libertad pertenece al orden de los relámpagos, no al de la luz eléctrica.

O relâmpago a iluminara e a devolvera à escuridão, lá onde também estavam os outros.

What is this world's delight, Lightening that mocks the night, Brief as even as bright

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

It was love at first sight. Until reality struck like lightning and burnt up everything leaving me with nothing but scars.

Il ressemblait à un orage d'été, dont la foudre illumine le ciel pâle. En sa présence, tout le reste s'estompait.

I'll search in mythology and archeology and in every -ology to my old name. one of the goddesses of Canaan will side with me, then swear with a flash of lightning. This is my orphan son