Quotes About Shock

Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen.

It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.

Jonas was shocked. A name designated Not-to-Be-Spoken indicated the highest degree of disgrace.

It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over—at your age, too.

A little time passed, with nothing to distract him from the full enjoyment and appreciation of his new array of physical sensations. He'd thought he'd sampled every sort of agony in the catalogue, but the goons' shock-sticks had found out nerves and synapses and ganglial knots he'd never known he possessed. Nothing like pain, to concentrate the attention upon the self.

He locked his cabin door behind him and stood against it, trembling, laughing in hysterical disbelief. Dammit, he'd studied everything about Naismith, everything. This couldn't be happening. With friends like this, who needs enemies?

He was not, he assured himself, in shock about this. There were limits even to his capacity for self-dramatization, after all. He was a little unbalanced, perhaps, like a man accustomed to leaning on a decorative cane having it suddenly snatched away.

Oh my God. Oh my God," Lyrica whispered, waving her hands in front of her face as she stared at him, eyes wide. "Dawg's gonna have pups when he finds out about this.

that a pink flamingo yard ornament deserved demolishing by any available means. A comment left unsaid, of course. Thea's face had paled to

Thank you, Dain, she said. I should like that very much. I've never seen a proper wrestling match before. I daresay it will be a novel experience all round, he said, gravely eyeing her up and down. I can't wait to see Sherburne's face when I arrive with my lady wife in tow. There, you see? she said, unoffended. I told you there were other benefits to having a wife. I can come in very handy when you wish to shock your friends.

What the fuck, babe.

He took several long, deep breaths. Then his head jerked violently, and he let out a shrill scream, worse than the one before.

I love plants. For the longest time I thought that they died without pain. But of course after I had argued with Mary she showed me clippings on how plants went into shock when pulled up by their roots, and even uttered something indescribable, like panic, a drawn-out vowel only registered on special instruments. Still, I love their habit of constant return. I don't like cut flowers. Only the ones that grow in the ground.

IV. IN THE MIDST OF FIRE          Pull the secondary emergency lever! cried the professor through the speaking tube to Washington. We must reach the surface at once!     Are we damaged? asked Andy, scrambling to his feet, for the shock had knocked him down. The professor had not fallen because he

oh shit that's a SNAKE—

like biting down on copper foil.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

Robert Hughes, Time magazines's art critic, told him on the phone that after he saw the planes flying over SoHo he had walked around in shock. On his way home he had stopped by a bakery and found the shelves cleaned out. Not a loaf remained, not a bagel, and the old baker standing amid the emptiness spread his arms and said, 'Should happen every day.

Christ Almighty! To see yourself... face to face.,. The clothes were on fire. Did you see that? What in God's name was it?' 'It was Gully Foyle,' Robin said, 'burning in hell.

you are unprepared

To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.

Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life. To another, it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.

He's really dead?" Benna blew out his cheeks. "Well, his head's off, and spiked above the gates, so unless you know one hell of a physician...

Watching a man's entrails spilling out is excellent entertainment, but the sight of his cock, well, that would be obscene.