Quotes About Shock

When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'" With wide-eyed disbelief Anton looked out over her head.

When they told me yesterday what had happened [the death of F. D. Roosevelt], I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

Did I mention the gold piercing of a snake he had through the head of his penis? I'd never seen one before. I asked what you were supposed to do with it. And he said, "Start by making friends.

Quinn's Theory of Funeral Secrets; 'At a funeral we acknowledge the life of the person and maybe the many identities,actions and secret lives of which the family and friends were unaware. For some a shock, for others a relief.

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Um, it's kind of a surprise.

Oh ! si au lieu d'être un enfer, l'univers n'avait été qu'un céleste anus immense, regardez le geste que je fais du côté de mon bas-ventre : oui, j'aurais enfoncé ma verge, à travers son sphyncter sanglant, fracassant, par mes mouvements impétueux, les propres parois de son bassin !

ANDERSON: Who copped your cherry? MRS. EVERLEIGH: My brother Ernie. Does that shock you? ANDERSON: Why should it? I'm from Kentucky.

The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

Nobody heard the two shots, but plenty of people saw Warren's head explode, or felt the wet gore splatter them, or saw his headless body drop to the ground, blood pouring from his neck like a dropped carton of milk.

WILLIAM BURROUGHS: I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass.

When first we pay the price of wisdom With innocence, We are too shocked to understand. Then later must we sit and wonder Whether it was worth the cost To know what every one must some day know. And knowing, ever after be afraid, And filled with shame.

A bolt from the blue.

The expression 'a bold from the blue' describes something so surprising that i makes you head spin, your legs wobble, and your body buzz with astonishment - as if a bold of lightening suddenly came down from a clear blue sky and struck you at full force. Unless you are a lightbulb, an electrical appliance, or a tree that is tired of standing upright, encountering a bold from the blue is not a pleasant experience.

It's bitten her!' he cried. 'It's Bitten her! It's bitten her! Calm down! Get moving! Call an ambulance! Call the police! Call a scientist! Call my wife! This is terrible! This is awful! This is ghastly! This is phantasmagorical! This is-

I never thought I'd live to see the day.

I am all astonishment.

Miss Bennet I am shocked and astonished. I expected to find a more reasonable young woman. But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede. I shall not go away till you have given me the assurance I require. And I certainly never shall give it. I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable

Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

I was stunned. I had only just met Stephen and for all his eccentricity I liked him. We both seemed shy in the presence of others, but were confident within ourselves. It was unthinkable that someone only a couple of years older than me should be facing the prospect of his own death. Mortality was not a concept that played any part in our existence. We were still young enough to be immortal.

When a man has been accustomed since his earliest years to command what he desires, a disappointment in matters nearest to his heart must come as more than a severe shock.