Quotes About Shock

When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.

I'm so sorry.' It was very obvious Mrs Douglas was dead. She was dressed only in her nightgown; her eyes protruded

Relax," Lucian said dryly. "Bricker will not leave without me. The SUV is—" "What?" Basil asked when his brother paused with his arm half raised, shock crossing his features. "The little shit just drove away without me," Lucian said with amazement.

Everything's all fun and games until someone gets an ax in the chest.

Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no longer have any real meaning for us. ...When will we be able to redeem our shock words? They have been turned to marshmallows. ...We no longer have anything to cry in time of crisis. 'Help!' we bleat. And no one hears us. 'Help' is another of those four-letter words that don't mean anything any more.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock, exactly like an electric jolt, that grounds itself perfectly in my memory.

My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock, exactly like an electric jolt, that grounds itself permanently in my memory. I still remember the first time I felt it.

My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock, exactly like an electric jolt, that grounds itself permanently in my memory.

Ni siquiera a mí?!

The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person.

Is there a bucket of blood hanging high in the auditorium rafters, waiting to be dropped

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

Anna opened her eyes and saw a pair of hands, streaked and shiny with blood. No face.

She fell suddenly and deeply asleep. A reaction to the shock, she thought later. It was as if a fuse had blown. She needed to escape.

thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.

AGHAST  (AGHA'ST)   adj.[either the participle of agaze,(see AGAZE)  and then to be written agazed, or agast,or from a and gast, a ghost, which the present orthography favours; perhaps they were originally different words.]Struck with horrour, as

I never saw the approaches of death in a grown person before; and was extremely shocked. Death, to one in health, is a very terrible thing. We pity the person for what she suffers: and we pity ourselves for what we must some time hence in like sort suffer; and so are doubly affected.

Bad things happen when you least expect them

I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.

He ate in your car? No shit?

Todo o mercado de sentimentos e sensações subiu - o choque, o escândalo encontram-se a um preço inacessível ao homem comum. É preciso fazer mais do que sofrer uma intoxicação por gás, ou cortar os pulsos.

We are survivors, in this age, so theories of progress ill become us, because we are intimately acquainted with the costs. To realize that you are a survivor is a shock.