55 Lightning Quotes For Flashes Of Environmental Inspiration (2024)

"Electricity is really just organized lightning."

"I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice."

"I loved watching the base of those thunderstorms, the billowing tops of the cumulonimbus, the lightning that effortlessly lit up the lake and the sky. It was gorgeous, so energetic. I was in love."

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

"My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt."

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

"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."

"Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is metal a conductor of electricity, and wood is not, but you're more likely to be struck by lightning when standing under a tree? These are questions that require science to answer."

"It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning."

"Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now."

"I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts at pouting."

"With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike."

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

"Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly."

"Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?"

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."

"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies."

"Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming."

"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

"You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift."

"You're more likely to see someone fatally struck by lightning than witness a case of in-person voter fraud."

"We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy."

"In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable."

"Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid."

"And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."

"The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning."

"When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on."

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."

"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."

"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."

"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."

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

"Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike."

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

"If you ever want your soul to dance in the clouds, you will at some point have to juggle lightning and taste the thunder."

"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."

"The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow."

"A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway."

"The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled."

"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."

"Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known."

"Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making."

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

"It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."

"Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle."

"I've managed to catch lightning in a bottle a couple times. I'm very lucky. But I want to do this forever. I enjoy it so much. One of the challenges as an actor is to stay relevant."

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

"Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about."

"Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it."

"Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning."

"I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do."

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."