Shock Quotes
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"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"A chance meeting in a Kansas City coffee shop may take me months of planning and twice a day visits for over a year. But I already have my stunned, surprised, and shocked speech rehearsed for the moment I act like I had no idea she would be there."
"God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise."
"Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked."
"I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied."
"When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?"
"There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare."
"I recovered from every shock of life's despair because God was merciful enough to restore me ."
"LIFE IS LIKE ELECTRICITY, ANYONE CAN SHOCK YOU"
"\with hope, you can survive any shock."
"Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new."
"Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion."
"With the grace of hopeful heart, you can overcome emotional shocks."
"Files of the past can be changed through shock, encouragement or pain"
"AAAAIIIE!You're the guy with the things, and the thing that does that thing, and then you did that one thing!Oh, and I think there's something about other things, and maybe you fix things?-Sergeant Schlock"
"Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am."
"I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page."
"I was going into shock. The pain wasn’t getting any better, and I thought that I would probably black out before I found out how this was going to end. Just as well—I was never particularly good at finishing things."
"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
"Don't worry, keep at it, you will soon shock the world"
"When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn't believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines and seen the horrors of battle being diagnosed with PTSD. I am a Beverly Hills housewife, not a soldier. I can't have PTSD. Well, I was wrong. Housewives can get PTSD, too, and yours, truly did."
Taylor Armstrong, Hiding from Reality: My Story of Love, Loss, and Finding the Courage Within
"I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't be done. I believe that's why sexual love, which needn't be, is so intensely intertwined with sin."
"Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity."
"Sometimes you take all my words away from me."
"Have you ever had a shock in life? It takes great hope, faith and courage to bounce back."
"Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens."
"There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all."
"Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way."
"This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree."
"I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?"
"When my first attempt failed, fear brought into me a shock... I gave a smile, only to realize that my shock was gone. A smile is a shock absorber!"
"SHOCK ABSORBERSVeterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully"
"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."
"You can recover from the state of shock."
"It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives."
Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
"I was crying for the little girl I had been, who had withstood terrifying nightmares of death and blood and war and maiming. And when I had tried to share those horrors, the shock on my friends' faces had told me I was not normal, and I should keep my dreams to myself."
"She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor."
"I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,Children dying in the road,Crawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair."
"A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden’s mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder."
"I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention"
"It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger."
"His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe."
"It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember."
"Salty tears stream down my face—coating my lips as I mutter senseless apologies for so many things. So many irreversible things.Morpheus peels the vines off and lifts me, cradling me to his chest."
"It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it,require some similar shock."
"Denial exists when three beliefs intersect:1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you.3. It cannot happen to you now."
"You can survive any shock."
"Your spirit must be strong to survive a shock."
"For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and yet arrived at that place and time and that body lying still on the soiled and bloodied stones."
"Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders."
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