Quotes About Shock

Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.

The cold was a shock. The cold hurt my lungs, and the harsh wind beating against my skin caused me to shake. I wondered if humans ever went outside. They must have been insane if they did.

Oh fuck,' whispered Nora, into the cold.

We don't go into a state of shock when something big and bad happens," she says. "It has to be something big and bad that we do not yet understand.

Remain aghast at life

She wondered how much of life would feel this way—shock without the grace of surprise.

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

HOLY MOTHER. WAS THAT A FACE?

All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is loved. They are written as though they are dirges, laments hidden in the silences and spaces between the words.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

Souls are created in a positive matrix of such love and wisdom that when a soul starts to come to a planet like Earth and join the physical beings who have evolved from a primitive state, the violence is a shock. Humans have the raw, negative emotions of anger and

The trauma of discovering her body, unmoving in the brackish water of the bathtub, had aged him ten years.

Before we move forward, your first step should be to summon up your inner sadist. You don't have an inner sadist? Bullshit… Everyone wants to witness a train wreck, even if they peek at it through their fingers. Actually, you will need to imagine that the train is full of children and baby pandas as it smashes into a bus teeming with elderly churchgoers on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

Shortly after eight o'clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his solemn guarantee, was in tears—and not of joy.

I am in a constant state of shock and horror.

I once met a girl – a pretty, attractive girl – who told me she fantasised about Jean-François Copé. It took me several days to get over it. Really, with girls today, all bets are off.

Oh well, it's over for you. Call the code at 2:03 p.m." My eyes widened in shock. "That's what they say when someone dies." "Exactly." He nodded. "Woman have fallen in love with me after staring like that for only thirty seconds and I think you just took a full minute. You're doomed.

Tom Fox's announcement came as a shock, even to congregants who complained about him. The most grief-stricken and rattled were those members who had come to the AUUCC during his reign and stayed because of him. Some of them loved Tom as some of us loved Sparlo, ardently and unconditionally. "It's good news hiding bad," muttered Charlotte as we shuffled toward the exit. "He's leaving, but we still have another whole year of him.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.