Quotes About Shock

All I know in love is how to shock people. To briefly worship, and then to destroy and be destroyed.

That brought D.D. up short.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided. They came crowding in on her thick and fast. The spectacle of two young women giving the breast to their babies made her blush and turn away her face.

He fell to the ground like an olive tree, young, beautiful, strong, covered with white blossoms, suddenly shattered by a bolt of lightning in a storm.

your jaw would hit the table in astonishment.

It is always the same, Mma Makutsi—every time. Exactly the same. So now I know what that guy says without needing to read his book." This was heresy, and for a few moments Mma Makutsi was almost too shocked to respond.

It transpired that he was an electricity thief. We would have imagined many things of which he might be guilty—many unspeakable things…

There once was a woman name of Sil, Who inserted a lit dynamite stick for a thrill. They found her vagina in North Carolina- And bits of her tits in Brazil.

and that's the blank unholy suprise of it.

What in the holy hell? I think again.

Eeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk!

Still spittin that shit that they shot Pac over, the shit my mother look shocked over.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

Shit my pants, see how long it takes them to notice.

Mr. Gaddis admitted the school wasn't much to look at before dropping the first match and lighting another. "But it's better than nothing." It is nothing! I screamed. Inside my head, of course. And I might even have said it out loud except I was too shocked to open my mouth. Johnnie Hatter's hole in the riverbank is probably better than this.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.—Noel Coward

Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here.

cabin, eyes wide, face gone white.

There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would seem to overthrow all the intricate, vital, slowly developed mechanism of mind, to plunge the victim into a chaotic half-world of confusion and loss. This is what had happened to Anna.

This body has been disturbed." "I'd be disturbed too if I was suddenly dead," I replied.

Frustration fills his golden eyes. "What Queen? Who is coming?" "The living myth," I whisper. "Dreams made flesh." His shock is replaced instantly by a fierce hunger. "You're sure?" The room is a swirling mist. He's the only thing still in sharp focus. He's the only thing I need. "I saw her in the tangled web, Daemon. I saw her.

I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.