“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

Source: Heart of Darkness

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Polish-British writer 1857–1924

Red Pine (1943) American author, poet, and translator of poetry

Source: The Diamond Sutra

“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.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

No. 381 (17 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

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

Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872) austrian dramatic and writer

“He was the chief of all the horses; and when he snorted, it was a flash of lightning and his eyes were like the sunset star.”

Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader

Black Elk Speaks (1961)

“In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.”

Stephen King book It

It (1986)

“But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')”

Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher

“I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVII : Misdemeanour; Arthur to Helen

“His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.”

Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying

A reference to George Meredith's style.
The Decay of Lying (1889)

“BECOME A WORTHY CONDUIT OF GOD’S LOVE AND CREATIVE POWER OF REALIZATION. LIKE A LIGHTNING FLASH, WHEN CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT, THE LIGHT SUDDENLY FILLS US, ILLUMINATING THE WORLD FOR AN INSTANT.”

Alex Grey (1953) American artist

Art Psalms (2008), The Plan

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

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