One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me!

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

My life is as if you've hit me with it.

I shuddered
like the earth split open by lightning.

I was struck all of a heap.

"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt."

[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.

Terrorists strike like lightning- hard, fast, and without warning.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

It was like a lightning flash of passion, swift and blinding in a leaden sky.

"I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize — that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in
the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize — and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you."

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.