Quotes About Shock

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

My dear, treacherous mother, " he breathed. "What have you done?

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor.

I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the way to his dinner, said to him, 'If I were you and you were a little girl, I would give you a doll.

May your earlobes turn to assholes and shit on your shoulders.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

Thomas Jefferson had become a student of Weishaupt's. He was one of his strongest defenders when he was outlawed by his government. Jefferson infiltrated the Illuminati into the newly organized Lodges of The Scottish Rite in New England. Realizing this information will shock many Americans I wish to record the following facts:

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

He looked like a man who'd invited himself to dinner only to discover that the special of the day was a plateful of shit.

Mrs. Breedlove looked about her, and then realizing for the first time the effect she'd created among her guests, she tossed her head and said in a surprised voice, "I don't see why the idea shocks you so. A thing so commonplace as that! Actually, homosexuality is triter than incest! Doctor Kettlebaum considered it was all a matter of personal preference.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

Invited round to meet Ava Cherry's mother and father, Bowie finished off his meal by bringing out a phial of coke and snorting right in front of them.

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theater. It is a theater, after all.

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theatre. It is a theatre, after all.

Russell didn't reply. He was dumbstruck by

The students are asked to rate their level of surprise on a five-point scale from 'not surprised at all' to 'beyond shock'. Many describe feelings of total shock and numbness: a large majority indicate some level of surprise. He asks them: "Why were you surprised?