Black Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some…

— Cormac McCarthy

The thing that shoots the lightning

— Davey Havok

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of…

— Charles Dickens

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

— Edward Abbey

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in…

— William Faulkner

“The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at…

— Cormac McCarthy

Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a…

— Tristan Tzara

As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Rain washed down the windshield, obscuring the world outside like an oil painting splattered with turpentine. Lightning cut a jagged gash across the sky,…

— Joe Hart

“I watched webs of lightning crackle in the dark air, framed by their black-cloud background, touching down on the rim forty or fifty miles…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“What is fire? It’s a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know. Its real beauty is that…

— Ray Bradbury

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical…

— Tom Robbins