Thunderstorm Quotes

• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Christmas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.

  Adam Young

  Rain, Dance In The Rain

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• Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Serene

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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 get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

  Ralph Steadman

  Ideas, Majesty, Sides

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• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Poetry, Lightning

  1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

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• Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Fear

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• I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

  Chetan Bhagat

  Disappointment, Frustration, Needs

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• Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wind, Genius, Come Up

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• Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

  Criss Jami

  Sunshine

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Shouting, Copper, Persons

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• My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
  Holds up each summer day and shakes
  It out suspiciously, lest swarms
  Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.

  Philip Larkin

  Summer, Mother, Hate

  Philip Larkin, “Mother, Summer, I”

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• Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Air, Wind, People

  "Papers and Journals".

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• The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Stars, Rain

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• A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Tree, Lightning, Fool

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.45, Penguin

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• All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

  W. H. Auden

  Leadership, Imagination, Quality

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays". Book by W. H. Auden. Chapter: "The Poet and The City", p. 84, 1962.

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• We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Goes On, Strive, Clock

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• You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Might, Appeals

  General William Tecumseh Sherman (2014). “Memoirs Of General Sherman - 2nd. Edition, Revised And Corrected [Illustrated - 2 Volumes In One]”, p.829, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

  Maximilian Schell

  Beautiful, Thinking, Symphony

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• In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Iron, Middle, Cases

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• The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Men, Lightning, World

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("Tiruvazhundur Sivakozhundu"), 1999.

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• Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Beautiful, Nice, Looks

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.380, Macmillan

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• The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Blessing

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being".

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• it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

  William H. Gass

  Past, Yesterday, Discouraging

  "The Tunnel". Book by William H. Gass, www.drmardy.com. 1995.

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