Volcano Quotes

“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil.
She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
She could plant a forest inside herself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still...”
― Robert Fanney

“Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

“In a world where poverty is a crime and where people are yearning for some crumbs of affection, they can only dance on the brim of the volcano and wait for an eruption of compassion. ("New life in Schengen")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“She looked up and smiled. “I’m glad you found some books that interest you. Would you like a glass of lemonade?”

Though I was hoping to thank her for the books and be on my way, I didn't want to seem rude. I nodded and set the stack of books on the counter. While Miz Goodpepper pulled a pitcher from the refrigerator, I asked, “Is the Kama Sutra a volcano?”

She gasped and splashed lemonade across the kitchen counter. The strangest look streaked across her face as she sopped up the mess with a wad of paper towels. “Well, I suppose some might think it's a volcano of sorts, but I can say with absolute assurance you wouldn't enjoy that book.”

“That's what I thought,” I said, feeling pleased with myself, so I put it back on the shelf.

She let out a barely audible sigh. “Good.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“Mount Kilauea spilled glowing lava like cords of orange neon-lighting from seemingly nowhere. In the blackness that engulfed the night, electric heat lit flowing streams that fell into the sea, disappearing in a cloud of steam with a sizzling splash.”
― Victoria Kahler, Capturing the Sunset

“Off the Santorini cliff on a dark, starless night, I tossed a message in a bottle and love found me washed up on the black lava sand of the Aegean shore. As with my previous loves, volcanic in nature. Almost destructive before it started.”
― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

“He does not so much inhabit this landscape as become inhabited by it. Its rivers flow through his veins, its branches toss in his hair, its planets burn through the bone of his forehead and irradiate his skull, its volcanoes stir and grumble in his throat”
― Gerald Moore

“Beautiful erupting volcano and ugly air quality!”
― Steven Magee

“Student: Master, why do volcanoes erupt? Master: Because no one takes a silent volcano seriously!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I was shocked at how many earthquakes there are on the island of Hawaii!”
― Steven Magee

“Living on the slopes of an active volcano keeps life interesting!”
― Steven Magee

“The 2022 Mauna Loa eruption started in the middle of the night.”
― Steven Magee

“I live on the slopes of the world’s largest active volcano!”
― Steven Magee

“Years of many earthquakes preceded the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano.”
― Steven Magee

“I have stayed at the summit cabin of the Mauna Loa volcano.”
― Steven Magee

“I was shocked at how large the summit caldera was of the Mauna Loa volcano!”
― Steven Magee

“The summit of the Mauna Loa volcano silently erupted in the middle of the night in 2022.”
― Steven Magee

“I was surprised at how deep the summit caldera was of the Mauna Loa volcano!”
― Steven Magee

“Hawaii island: Erupting volcano, falling ash, lava inundations and bad air quality!”
― Steven Magee

“Where will the lava go?”
― Steven Magee

“In the months before Mauna Loa erupted in 2022, my home was vibrating weekly and noticeably shaking about once per month from the earthquakes in Pahala on Hawaii island.”
― Steven Magee

“If the Mauna Loa lava inundates Hilo, it will send the island back into the 1950's!”
― Steven Magee

“The island of Hawaii is a great place to study atmospheric pollution on atmospheric radiation transmission due to its erupting volcano.”
― Steven Magee

“The drought came with the volcano. Street lamps frowned through ash-made dark. Homes turned into hills with chimneys peeking out the summits. We hummed as we trudged through the wreckage, until our hums
turned into songs. We didn’t know what else to do. Tears wouldn’t water the grass. Cries wouldn’t call the birds home.”
― Anne Marie Wells, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“A series of altitude tests I had done in a day on Hawaii island damaged my right ulnar nerve. I had been to view the volcano at night at 4,000 feet. It was freezing cold up there!”
― Steven Magee

“Mom refused to let Gran drive the convertible up the volcano in the middle of the night.”
― Becky Dean, Picture Perfect Boyfriend

“Although Sicily in July can be a furnace, there can be cool nights by the sea, and up in the hills of Mount Etna. I allow myself to feel a tantalizing hope we might head up there. There is something thrilling about the pull of the volcano towering over the Sicilian coastline, constantly puffing steam and fiery red ash like a sleeping dragon, while farmers and villagers quietly live and work, aware that she can wake at any moment.”
― Lizzy Dent, Just One Taste