Quotes About Shock

Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that some of us stand on one bank and some on the opposite. So long as we stand like that we are not living at all, but dreaming. So jump, jump in, and let the shock wake us up. Even if we drown, at least for a moment or two before we die we shall be awake and alive.

There was the blow-up sex doll in a deckchair on the front porch, with a cucumber in its mouth slot and a sign around its neck saying "I claim this house in the name of Satan".

For George, being in a band was a passion, one to be shared with his friends. Discovering that David had an entirely different agenda was a shock. Just as striking was how unapologetic George's bandmate was—indeed, there was a kind of purity about his attitude; David's selfishness was cheerful, instinctive, almost childlike in its lack of malevolence. George was one of the first, but not the last, to hear what would become a guiding philosophy: "Numero uno, mate!

Velvet peeled away from my heart, my delicate pericardium, shocked that something beautiful did not love me. I grew six terrible inches. My bones hardened into their permanence.

flesh had become a frequent component of the revues

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

Oh," I said, feeling punched in the windpipe.

Shura," she whispered. "I'm going to have a baby." At first she didn't think Alexander heard her, he was mute so long. "You what?" he said in horror. "I'm going to have a baby," she mouthed, her shoulders quaking, her swollen lips quivering.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

It is better that we gain what we demand by a process of negotiation which would occupy twenty years, than that by communicating a sudden shock to the interests of those who are the depositaries and dependents of power we should incur the calamity which their revenge might inflict upon us by giving the signal of . . . war.

In Tacoma, Washington, I speared myself on my guitar's whammy bar – it went right through my hand. I went into shock,

Trauma happens when any experience stuns us like a bolt out of the blue; it overwhelms us, leaving us altered and disconnected

glazed eyes, pale skin, rapid or shallow pulse and breathing, disorientation, appears overly emotional or overly tranquil, i.e., acting like nothing has happened),

The critical idea here is that when we are vulnerable, we benefit most from feeling a connection with a calm person who is confident of what to do and is able to convey a sense of safety and compassion. Your child will feel safe if he knows that you are strong enough to withstand (contain) his shock without becoming overwhelmed yourself.

If we toss about the idea of "God in the flesh" as if it were just that thing we believe, we are not tuned in to the shock and even offense that John's opening lines would have generated. Christianity is a weird religion, folks.

From Bonney's position it was as if a small fusion bomb had detonated above her, sending its billowing mushroom cloud hurtling downwards. "All this," she cried disbelievingly, "for me?

Does it hurt?" "Fucking fuck!

Kysandra turned to the third victim. "Prime Minister?" she said in surprise. "No, I stole his body. Don't worry about this; everything is backed up. I'll re-life later. Just get us back…Oh, bollocks, here we go again." His chest juddered as blood gushed out of his mouth; then his body went limp.

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.

A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.

his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.