Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From… — Doris Lessing
I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought… — Emily Bronte
Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of… — Toni Morrison
Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the… — Michel Foucault
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of… — Gloria Naylor
If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to… — Rumi
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good… — Dylan Thomas
There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions… — Margaret Atwood
Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts… — Janet Evanovich
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for… — Barbara Kingsolver
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in… — Joyce Carol Oates
...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but… — Ralph Keyes
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good.… — Mary Doria Russell
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
Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or… — Mark Haddon
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will… — Gustave Flaubert
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face,… — Stephen King
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who Wrote These Lightning Quotes

394 authors contributed a total of 495 Lightning Quotes, led by these top contributors: