Quotes About Shock

We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

There was blood, so much blood that it painted his face and stained his hair. There was blood, so much blood that several moments passed before I recognized my father.

I shot her square in the nose and the back of her head blew apart, like a biological firework packed with flesh, bone and hair. Two

I guess we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, of such capability for kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now so suddenly be spirited away ... Well, I feel that I should say, Nonsense. Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries! And the reason I feel I should say this is he would never forgive me if I didn't, if I threw away this glorious opportunity to shock you all on his behalf. Anything for him, but mindless good taste.

That heart sinking feeling you get when you read something you didn't want to know.

Do you know what is the best return gift you can give to your friends and acquaintances who wish you Happy Birthday? Accomplish the things they never expected you to do and shut them up forever. Happy Birthday!

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

I mean, I want my live show to be like a Marilyn Manson show, where it's gruesome and dark, but I want the music to be straight-up pop.

OMG, I am a married woman!

I was hideously shocked. Everything that I had laboured so hard to expel from my own life seemed to have flared up and met me in my best friends. Not only my best friends but those whom I would have thought safest; the one so immovable, the other brought up in a free-thinking family and so immune from all "superstition" that he had hardly heard of Christianity itself until he went to school. Though

Thinking about it now, I realize that the mark had more or less the form of a Q, but at the time, in the shock of this unexpected and painful act of revealment, it had no such clarity, and it disturbed me the way I would be disturbed by the appearance on a page of English of an unfamiliar symbol from a lost and unreadable language.

Anyone would think you'd seen a ghost!

The whole country's going to puke blood when they read it.

I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves. You were right, Jack. This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

Even after you think you've seen all the ways violence can surprise a man, along comes something you never imagined.

This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

How was it that a complex, a nervous and delicately calibrated mind like my own, was able to adjust itself perfectly after a shock like the murder, while Bunny's eminently more sturdy and ordinary one was knocked out of kilter?

A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I actually stood watching one, it seemed the easiest thing in the world.