Quotes About Shock

What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

America is exceptional. Does that statement shock you? It shocks me to have to say it! To be forced by your doubt to say out loud that America is exceptional implies something ugly. It's like telling the host of a dinner party 'I'm certain your wife is a female.' Saying it out loud just feels wrong. No matter how big her hands are.

The battle roar settled to a rolling thunder, which was a single long explosion. In the regiment there was a peculiar kind of hesitation denoted in the attitudes of the men. They were worn, exhausted, having slept but little and labored much. They rolled their eyes toward the advancing battle as they stood awaiting the shock. Some shrank and flinched. They stood as men tied to stakes.

Todd says that the doctor was rather horrified because we passed a German who had had his head shot off, but his arms and legs were still waving about and strange noises were coming out of him, and i thought even the doctor was a bit turned over by that.

oh shit it's shit

Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*.

I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.

His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.

Strange, the things you noticed when your day—your life—suddenly went over a cliff you hadn't even known was there.

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street.

My face felt like it had just been rammed into a brick wall . . . because it had.

the gruesome opposite of tearing into gift wrap.

Newton screamed when he felt them begin to crawl over his scrotum and try to wiggle between his buttocks

The girl's eyes rolled high and he fell backward. Dez

Jesus H. Christ in a clown car.

back?" said Norm's dad. Gordon flipping Bennett. thought

It wasn't the body," he said. "I've seen worse things in our fridge.

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!

No, si ya se sabe. Siempre aparece alguien que no te esperas para nada.

Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive

On the brutality of the Nazis after the war, "The public reeled at the very evilness of evil.