Lightning Quotes

• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  B. Alan Wallace (2001). “Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-point Mind-training”, Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated

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• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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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

  Rain, Wind, Heaven

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• Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

  William Gibson

  Long, Enough

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• If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Thunder

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• The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

  Avicenna

  Brilliant, Disappear

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thunder, Ifs

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• The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Ideas, Diagrams

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Clouds, Rocks

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.805, Macmillan

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• And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

  Black Elk

  Breaths

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Electricity is really just organized lightning.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Time Passes, Knows

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• The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

  William Tyler

  Time, Reason, Strikes

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• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sun, Genius, Flash

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• At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.

  Maimonides

  Night, Shining, Darkness

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.148, Moses Maimonides

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• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  Samuel Butler

  Morning, Dew, Life Is

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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

  Harry Hershfield

  Contradicting, Strikes

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• Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Power, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1880). “Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Stay open, who knows, lightning could strike.

  William Parrish

  Strikes, Knows

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• Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.

  Hilary McKay

  Night, Light, Feet

  Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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

  Eric Mackay

  Nature, Environmental, Storm

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Iron

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• Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

  Chris Colfer

  Ideas, Trying, Way

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