LIGHTNING QUOTES III
quotations about lightning
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
The lightning comes on a mission of mercy, bearing healing in its train.
MISS J. TRUMBULL
attributed, Day's Collacon
To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,
Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm.
JOHN DRYDEN
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Heat lightning prowls, pranks the mountain horizon like
Memory. I follow the soundless flicker,
As ridge after ridge, as outline of peak after peak,
Is momentarily defined in the
Pale wash, the rose-flush, of distance.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
"Heat Lightning", The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
FLAMMARION
attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12
When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.
JENNIFER BOSWORTH
Struck
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
HARRY HERSHFIELD
Now I'll Tell One
The lightning flashing in the heavens is like the fire of musketry from a hostile army.
CORA AGNEW
attributed, Day's Collacon
In the dark clouds the sharp flashes of impulsive lightning are born.
ELIS WYN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;
Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
"The Cloud"
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
LAO TZU
attributed, The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
PHILIP YANCEY
Disappointment with God
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth;
And ere a man can say--Behold!
The jaws of darkness devour it up.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they.
FRANK CRANE
"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays