Lightning quotes

Lightning

231 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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U.G. Krishnamurti
U.G. Krishnamurti Philosopher

"This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life."

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Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar Novelist, Short Story Writer

"As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert."

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Julio Cortazar Novelist, Short Story Writer
Lightning

"We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written."

Attention Lightning Serendipity
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Lightning

"Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks."

Believe Moments Lightning
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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Lightning

"But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!"

Life Clouds Lightning
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Lightning

"The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything."

Moving Space Lightning
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Lightning

"Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible."

Way Play Lightning
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Johnny Carson Television Host
Lightning

"According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives."

Winning Statistics Lightning
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Lightning

"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!"

Stupid Religion Lightning
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Benjamin Butler Politician
Lightning

"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?"

Air Storm Lightning
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Emily Bronte Poet, Novelist
Lightning

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire"

Soul Fire Lightning
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Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer
Lightning

"Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence."

Secret Odds Lightning
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Neil Gaiman Author
Lightning

"She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."

Secret Storm Lightning
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Lightning

"There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal."

Two Reflection Lightning
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Shelley Berman Comedian, Actor
Lightning

"The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms."

Arms Storm Lightning
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