Thunderstorm Quotes

#1. There is room in my mind for unpleasant thoughts just as there is room in the sky for a thunderstorm. I just need to relate to the sky and not the storm.

Peter Wunstorf

#2. 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

#3. We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

Raymond Khoury

#4. One opal cloudlet in an oval form reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm which in a distant valley has been staged for we are most artistically caged.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. It was like trying to teach subtlety to a thunderstorm.

Erica Bauermeister

#6. Leslie Ann was now modeling a conservative thunderstorm gray business suit/dress with lightning flashes streaking down her legs, and 1G rain splashing her silvery galoshes.

@hg47

#7. Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#8. Here we go. Kerrick was as subtle as a thunderstorm.

Maria V. Snyder

#9. Suppose you are walking in a thunderstorm, and you say to yourself, "I am not at all likely to be struck by lightning." The next moment you are struck. but you experience no surprise, because you are dead.

Bertrand Russell

#10. It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Life isn't how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.

Adam Young

#12. I crave the violence of your affection. I ache for the way it jumbles my insides and makes my heart feel like it's harboring a thunderstorm. I've never felt more alive in all my time on this earth, as I have, being underneath your touch.

LeAnne Mechelle

#13. He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

John Eldredge

#14. I didn't pretend to comprehend what he meant. I simply closed my eyes and let his arms wrap around me. The warmth that came from his body made me feel at home, as if, somehow, this is where I belonged. He smelled of woods after a thunderstorm, clean and elemental.

Lucy Swing

#15. You little (such a one who, while wearing a copper nose ring, stands in a footbath atop Mount Raruaruaha during a heavy thunderstorm and shouts that Alohura, goddess of lightning, has the facial features of a diseased uloruaha root)!

Terry Pratchett

#16. I lie flat, the damp air above me like a lid. Like earth. I wish it would rain. Better still, a thunderstorm, black clouds, lightning, ear-splitting sound.

Margaret Atwood

#17. She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage' ...

Ken Follett

#18. I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Robert Jordan

#19. When she left me
I stood out in the thunderstorm,
hoping to be destroyed by lightning.
It missed, first left, then right.

Ted Kooser

#20. And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.

Natalie Babbitt

#21. When the presence is like thunderstorm , the absence prevail deep dark silence.

Upasana Banerjee

#22. I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush.

Henry James

#23. I will have you; be it in a thunderstorm, a tornado, or even an earthquake. You shall be mine.

Lindy Zart

#24. We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.

Julie Roberts

#25. I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

Evangeline Lilly

#26. Your big finish is rolling in like a thunderstorm. No stopping it.

Kresley Cole

#27. 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

#28. A Cue from Nature
Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That's what unlonely is like

David Levithan

#29. His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.

Patrick Rothfuss

#30. After dinner, out of nowhere, it started to rain. It caught me off guard, and seeing the world that had only been sunny and warm transformed by a sudden thunderstorm was jarring, a reminder of just how quickly things could change.

Morgan Matson

#31. I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder.

Amanda Mosher

#32. I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.

Brian Doyle

#33. Where was she now, the girl with the thunderstorm heart?

Jaclyn Moriarty

#34. Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Carl Hiaasen

#35. I could not fall back in love with Chase Jennings. Doing so was like falling in love with a thunderstorm. Exciting and powerful, yes. Even beautiful. But violently tempered, unpredictable, and ultimately short-lived.

Kristen Simmons

#36. In the hour before a thunderstorm, the color of the forest deepens: the pine needles take on a dense vibrant greenness they possess at no other time, the slender trunks go black, and the leaden sky above sinks lower by the minute.

Michael McDowell

#37. For someone who wrote a novel with a superhero named "Dark Lightning," you wouldn't think a thunderstorm would make me so nervous.

J.M. Richards

#38. 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

#39. A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Henry Ward Beecher

#40. Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

Patricia Wentworth

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#42. I'm the guy who checks the weather report every day hoping for a thunderstorm.

J. Tonzelli

#43. The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

Tom Robbins

#44. Thunderstorm precedes heavy rain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food!" It was terrifying, man.

Rick Riordan

#46. Darius squared his shoulders, wishing he had something other than his handkerchief to keep his hands occupied while she stood this close, looking so angry and at the same time as wildly beautiful, dangerous, and breathtaking as a thunderstorm at sea. A face to sink a thousand ships...

Jayne Fresina

#47. Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.

Soul Dancer

#48. Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.'
'Thank you,' said Robin.

Robin McKinley

#49. A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls. Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate, his eyes wobble in his head.

Ray Bradbury

#50. It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really interesting, because on any given day you're having to react to what New York is offering, if that's a thunderstorm or blocked traffic or a bunch of noise.

Jessica Collins

#51. Think, guys. What was strange about the story Uncle Goerge told us?"
"That a woman outsmarted the men", Mike said. For which he received a scowl that did a thunderstorm justice.

Sigmund Brouwer

#52. You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William T. Sherman

#53. Last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you but could only find rain and more rain and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, like an orchestra.

Shinji Moon

#54. When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. Mommy, God's really showing off today!

Beth Moore

#55. Claire knew she was in control of her actions, she could choose to fight or complain. Her plan was for self-preservation until she was free. This had been a good old-fashioned thunderstorm, loud and boisterous but no real damage.

Aleatha Romig

#56. Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants.
"So, really, I saved the day," he decided.
"Wait a minute," Amy said, "I climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm."
"Yeah, but the clue was in my pants.

Rick Riordan

#57. Michael, Eleanor is without a doubt the most beautiful woman who has ever or will ever live. If you could take a nighttime thunderstorm and turn it into a woman, you would have a very good idea what she looks like. And a fairly good idea how she behaves as well.

Tiffany Reisz

#58. I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra.

Shinji Moon

#59. That darling boy is so vain he could make a thunderstorm be about him.

Pierce Brown

#60. Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

#61. I feel an extremely annoyed thunderstorm nearby," Kade warned. "Actually, I'm the one annoyed. The thunderstorm could go either way." - Storm Glass

Maria V. Snyder

#62. The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

Wendell Phillips

#64. I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#65. And you had to do that in a thunderstorm pissing down like a camel?

Poppet

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. Tolkien's words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm. - Gaiman on J. R. R. Tolkien

Neil Gaiman

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

Garrison Keillor

#70. Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

W. H. Auden

#71. Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm.

Jacqueline Carey

#72. The winter sky has already turned black, but I could still see Wesley's gray eyes in the darkness. They were exactly the color of the sky before a thunderstorm.

Kody Keplinger

#73. Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Ralph Steadman

#75. Sonata for Thunderstorm, Trapdoors and Young Women in Skimpy Clothing.

Terry Pratchett

#76. 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!

Terry Pratchett

#77. As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

Stephen Chbosky

#78. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.

Sanober Khan

#79. As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.

Soul Dancer

#80. Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Criss Jami

#81. Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

Helen McCloy

#82. When the dark clouds accompany us with the furious concert of Thunder, then the liberating rain will finally wipe away the tears from our cheeks.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann