Quotes About Shock

He looks shocked, and worse. He looks like he's on the brink of breaking down completely.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

uh oh I shit myself

The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.

Italy is working to make sure the Brexit shock is an opportunity for a European reawakening.

I still like to shock, but the jokes are less sexist. It's just that, at one point in my stories, there was some sense of pride, some enthusiasm, and now I'm just embarrassed by myself.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

You sold us out, Clark. You gave them the power that should have been ours. Just like your parents taught you. My parents taught me a different lesson... lying on this street... shaking in deep shock... dying for no reason at all. They showed me that the world only makes sense when you force it to.

Vanessa's eyes widened as Grandma slammed the door.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He'd done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

What did you do the moment you found out?" Mraize said. "Cursed your name.

Oh, blessed Domi!" the Aon exclaimed, approaching quickly. "Ashe!" she said, wiping her eyes with a quivering hand, numbed by shock. "You never use the Lord's name!" "If He has brought me to you, then He has His first Seon convert," Ashe said, pulsing excitedly.

It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi.

Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?" "Yes." Kelsier decked him.

The explosion, it seemed, had shocked the life into people.*

Anguish is an almost unbearable and traumatic swirl of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. Shock and incredulity can take our breath away, and grief and powerlessness often come for our hearts and our minds. But anguish, the combination of these experiences, not only takes away our ability to breathe, feel, and think—it comes for our bones.

familiar grief—a grief we've come to know and understand and even integrate into our lives—can surprise us again and again, often in the form of anguish. This is especially true when something sparks shock and incredulity in us, like the letter that Carmen's mother had written to her.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

Oh, handsome—very, very," I insisted; "wonderfully handsome. But infamous." She slowly came back to me. "Miss Jessel—was infamous." She once more took my hand in both her own, holding it as tight as if to fortify me against the increase of alarm I might draw from this disclosure. "They were both infamous," she finally said.

Well, fuck a duck.

when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my first kick.

I get a call when I'm in Thailand at 3 A.M. from my rep saying, 'Clint Eastwood wants you to star in his new movie,' and I said, 'You guys are hilarious. What, does Jesse Plemons have the measles? What the hell's going on?' It was a total shock, but obviously we were all aggressively elated that this was a real thing.