Explosion Quotes

“The Princess Andromeda?"
"Went ka-boom.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.”
― Simon Morden, Theories of Flight

“She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across the lush landscape. Reds and blues: Maroon and ceruleans. Yellow and tangerine and violet and aquamarine. Every hue held a flavor, a heartbeat, a life. She took a deep breath and drew it all in.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore

“If any of this ended in an explosion, I hoped it would be one that made us burn brighter, stronger than ever before.”
― Sheba Karim, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

“To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration.”
― Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon

“If things aren’t exploding now and again, it means you’re not trying hard enough.”
― Gwendolyn Clare, Ink, Iron, and Glass

“I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion just waiting to happen.”
― Sally Ride

“I lifted a brow. “You’re not going to try to blow up our ship, are you?”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“The most amazing lightning I have seen has been at high altitude astronomical observatories. Watching a nearby tree being hit by lightning is an impressive sight and the explosion of sound is awesome!”
― Steven Magee

“At the first of the explosions, I was no longer seeing the fireworks, but as a superimposition of every time that I had sat on concrete and plastic and sand and wood and gazed at the sky the day before vacation ended. I lost this experience in how comingled it was with the past and with vague accounting of when next I would see fireworks.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“When you're done with being used, you become desperate to fight back and it doesn't matter how far you go, as long as you go. It's like a bomb that's ticking inside you and the longer you keep it in, the louder the explosion and the greater the damage.”
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

“The diminishing fiery shell reached them as well. It melted everything in its path, starting with the corner of the island. Even the ocean water boiled until it evaporated, then turned the molecules into plasma as if that weren't enough. The plasma vapor, thousands of degrees hot, removed their flesh and carbonized them to the bone. Not even Dazai's power to nullify other skills could nullify the collateral plasma vapor. He and Kunikida became but shadows, burned into the pavement—but even that pavement instantly melted away. Dazai muttered something the moment he vanished, but even the air that came out of his mouth turned into plasma, never to be heard.”
― Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]

“We are perhaps the funniest shattered pieces of the ongoing cosmic explosion; and the biggest troublemakers!”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“Suddenly, an incredibly loud explosion was heard rumbling behind them. It sounded like someone dropped a mountain from the clouds. It was a deep reverberating that continued.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Welcome to the new age,’ Kirk muttered, while looking into his mirror. He kept driving fast and continued to put miles between them and the explosion.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“I consider myself fortunate that I left high altitude astronomy before the explosion in the number of biologically toxic satellites took place.”
― Steven Magee

“I love a good cranial explosion just as much as the next girl.”
― Gerri R. Gray, The Strange Adventures of Turquoise Moonwolf

“It took 25 space shuttle flights for a total loss to occur.”
― Steven Magee

“If NASA was an airline, the FAA would have shut it down.”
― Steven Magee

“The Benders had died in a helicopter explosion but were otherwise in perfect health.”
― Simon Rich, Spoiled Brats

“We are gradually heading towards an intelligence explosion. We can expect it to happen much sooner than anticipated. Are we ready for it?”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Living an immoral life is like supergluing a bomb to your body that you have no way to disarm. You might be able to live in denial of the bomb, but you’re going to find it very difficult to live in denial of the explosion.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Wise people are considering the interior because effervescence of interior will consequence the explosion.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It commenced with an eruption, a resounding blast that shattered the tranquility of the evening”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

“There is a huge amount of energy stored inside of a pressurized airplane.”
― Steven Magee

“There are a myriad of long term health issues associated with an airplane explosive decompression.”
― Steven Magee

“Treating truth as a bargainable commodity is much like planting a time bomb that immediately resets itself after every explosion.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man