Thunder Quotes
350 quotes by 285 authors
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his…
— Joseph Addison
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
— Eubie Blake
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
— Eden Ahbez
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man…
— John Bertram Phillips
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
— Frederick Douglass
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A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.
— Edwin Morgan
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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
— Walt Whitman
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky.…
— Seneca the Younger
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I go where the sound of thunder is.
— Alfred M. Gray
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
— Herman Melville
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Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.
— Rumi
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the…
— Mark Twain
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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch…
— Mark Twain
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could…
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Thunder Quotes
285 authors contributed a total of 350 Thunder Quotes, led by these top contributors: