--- title: "4 Lightning Quotes By Rumi" description: "4 Lightning quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Lightning sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/rumi-56_inspirational_lightning-your-presence-from-ground-to-s_696536.jpg" --- > [Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/lightning-your-presence-from-ground-to-sky-no-one-knows-what-becomes/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/rumi-56_inspirational_lightning-your-presence-from-ground-to-s_696536.jpg) > [Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/lovers-move-like-lightning-and-wind-no-contest-theologians-mumble/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a25/rumi-56_beloved_lovers-move-like-lightning-and-wind-no-c_791456.jpg) > [The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-core-of-the-seen-and-unseen-universe-smiles-but-remember-smiles/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/rumi-56_core_the-core-of-the-seen-and-unseen-universe_2314070.jpg) > [Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/without-the-frown-of-clouds-and-lightning-the-vines-would-be-burned/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f49/rumi-56_burned_without-the-frown-of-clouds-and-lightnin_2977675.jpg) ## Other authors on Lightning - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/rick-riordan/) - [Mark Twain 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pablo-neruda-73079.jpg) Pablo Neruda 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/pablo-neruda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/charles-dickens/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-pratchett-89528.jpg) Terry Pratchett 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/terry-pratchett/) - [Salim Akil 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/salim-akil/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-percy-bysshe-shelley-74544.jpg) Percy Bysshe Shelley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/percy-bysshe-shelley/) - [Jarod Kintz 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/jarod-kintz/) ## More by Rumi > [The love religion is all that is written here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-love-religion-is-all-that-is-written-here/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-so-it-is-that-both-the-devil-and-the-angelic-spirit-present-us/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plant-life-and-into-the-animal/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-morning-inside-you-waiting-to-burst-open-into-light/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-door-calling-you-this-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-so-distracted-me-your-absence-fans-my-love-don-t-ask-how-then/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-something-to-be-said-for-anyone-who-sits-alone-with-dignity/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tis-easy-to-break-an-idol-very-easy-to-regard-the-self-as-easy-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/today-let-us-swim-wildly-joyously-in-gratitude/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [I have no name for what circles so perfectly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-no-name-for-what-circles-so-perfectly/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-draws-friends-together-does-not-conform-to-the-laws-of-nature/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We are born of love. Love is our mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-are-born-of-love-love-is-our-mother/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/water-stories-the-body-all-the-things-we-do-are-mediums-that-hid-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-heart-isn-t-yet-illumined-be-awake-always-be-a-seeker-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-came-back-to-you-because-i-could-not-find-the-kind-and-decent/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lightning/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "4 Lightning Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/lightning-your-presence-from-ground-to-sky-no-one-knows-what-becomes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/rumi-56_inspirational_lightning-your-presence-from-ground-to-s_696536.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/rumi-56_inspirational_lightning-your-presence-from-ground-to-s_696536.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/rumi-56_inspirational_lightning-your-presence-from-ground-to-s_696536.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Lovers move like lightning and wind. 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