Power Outage Quotes
Perhaps there is no other concept, object, or entity we are so utterly dependent on in the modern world. Televisions we watch without looking away, screens we stare at for hours playing PlayStation games, computers, most of our kitchen appliances, our cars, the vehicles we use for transportation, and cell phones and their applications that cause social media addiction, hindering healthy communication between people… All of these are connected to electricity.
Power outages occur occasionally, perhaps to remind us of its value. From nationwide blackouts lasting a day in some years to more frequent hourly interruptions, no matter when or for how long, we instantly feel its absence. Getting caught in a power outage in the toilet, mid-game, in an elevator, or while climbing stairs is likely the most frustrating, although it’s also a good excuse for a student who can’t do their homework.
We wish ease to the intensive care patients in hospitals and healthcare workers who are most affected by power outages, and to the security forces who are trying to solve the security problems that may occur during evening blackouts.
With the hope that those who wait for the electricity to return like lovers waiting by the window for their beloved will get what they desire as soon as possible…
We have prepared a compilation of various quotes that mention the term “power outage”…
Power Outage Quotes
“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”
Steven Wright
“Despite the power outage, electricity sizzled around us, one spark away from catching fire.”
Ana Huang (King of Pride (Kings of Sin, #2))
“They were so accustomed by now to the random coming and going of the lights that no one bothered anymore with the rituals of power outage”
Orhan Pamuk (Snow)
“Electricity is loud. Did you know? When we had power outages, the peace from the forest would seep in and blanket the house in perfect, beautiful silence.”
Angela B. Chrysler (Broken)
“The majority who believed that power outages are limited in duration, that help always arrives from beyond the edge of darkness, is undergoing a crisis of conviction.”
Ted Koppel (Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath)
“It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs and those with disabilities have been adequately planned for and met during widespread power outages. I fear the answers.”
Sheri Fink
“Multiple explosions of light shattered within my pineal gland into, propelling me into a state of oblivion. My mind completely shut down, disassociating from my lessons, downloads, and celestial teachings. It was an internal power outage, as the grim blackness ensued within my essence.”
Lali A. Love, Blade of Truth
Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.
David Steindl-Rast
“There are emergency preparedness plans in place for earthquakes and hurricanes, heat waves and ice storms. There are plans for power outages of a few days, affecting as many as several million people. But if a highly populated area was without electricity for a period of months or even weeks, there is no master plan for the civilian population.”
Ted Koppel (Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath)
“significant power outages are climbing year by year, from 15 in 2001 to 78 in 2007 to 307 in 2011. America has the highest number of outage minutes of any developed nation—coming in at about six hours per year, not including blackouts caused by extreme weather or other “acts of God,” of which there were 679 between 2003 and 2012. Compare this with Korea at 16 outage minutes a year, Italy at 51 minutes, Germany at 15, and Japan at 11. Not”
Gretchen Bakke (The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era)
“The map of utopias is cluttered nowadays with experiments by other names, and the very idea is expanding. It needs to open up a little more to contain disaster communities. These remarkable societies suggest that, just as many machines reset themselves to their original settings after a power outage, human beings reset themselves to something altruistic, communitarian, resourceful and imaginative after a disaster, that we revert to something we already know how to do. The possibility of paradise is already within us as a default setting.”
Rebecca Solnit (A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster)
Power Outage Quotes
