“A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.”

“If it is natural for lightning to strike the earth, why doesn’t it strike each and every one of us? Why does it not blind us all?”

“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”

“A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.”

“Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?”

“Oh, talk about lightning striking twice. Another goal scrubbed out for the United States.”

“They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!”

“Move like a beam of light;
Fly like lightning,
Strike like thunder,
Whirl in circles around
A stable center.”

“Your shadow stealthily
leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle
that sews together my footsteps.
Your light pliantly
strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt
that severs the source of my life.
-Soifon”

“The Communists say that there are the only two means of establishing communism. The first is violence. Nothing short of it will suffice to break up the existing system. The other is dictatorship of the proletariat. Nothing short of it will suffice to continue the new system.”