Quote by Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where the

Summary

This quote suggests that human emotions and feelings, represented as "affections," are unpredictable and uncontrollable. Comparing them to lightning, it implies that we cannot anticipate or determine where our emotions will be directed until they are already experienced. It highlights the spontaneous and often unexpected nature of emotions, indicating that they can strike us suddenly and without warning. Thus, the quote emphasizes the mysterious and elusive aspect of human affections, implying that they are beyond our complete comprehension and control.

Topics

Love

By Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy Nietzsche Schopenhauer As Educator

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went do

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Life

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

Life Books Inspirational Tears Stargirl

I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit

I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

Teen

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

You can plant a dream.

You can plant a dream.

Goals

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Jean de la Bruyere

Death

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on th

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

Love Miracles Movies Adventure

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion o

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

William Pitt The Elder Chatham

Money

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Praise

Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel i

Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.

Pharrell Williams

Morning

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people p

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Peace