Quotes About Shock

I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a cinema and see your life depicted in another way can come as a terrible shock.

There's an intruder in my OoAh!

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Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first.

Alem had not realized prostitutes were so dangerous.

The first thing I did when they opened the chamber was puke on the guy's shoes.

I caught my wife in bed with my best friend the other day. I was crushed. They could have waited till I'd got out.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

Professor Bhegad gasped. "Massa treachery . . . Torquin's driving . . . not sure which is worse.

Leo wondered what unknown sin they must have committed in some previous life to deserve this. The answer came the same way their feet later shocked to life in the warming hut after being so numb for hours- you think you'll never feel your toes again, and then all of a sudden life, damaged, stiffened, clammy, but life, dog-eat-dog life! We have not done a single thing to deserve this.

John Gielgud thought 'he was never the same after leaving England, though he wouldn't have admitted it. I think that tax business, and the way people reacted to it, shocked him . . . He wasn't much good as a tax exile. He didn't do a lot with his money. His houses were commonplace, the food dreadful, the decoration pretty amateurish.

this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.

Christ on the crapper

Shock, and loss of blood.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

I guess… it was just a shocking event. We're not used to someone like him being President." Here, the student reveals an availability bias in which we expect future outcomes to look like what has gone before.

One of the finest quotes I ever overheard on the streets of Miami Beach was, 'He fucked me so hard my mother came.

It looks like Animal and Miss piggy had sex, I said. And this was the spawn. My eyes! Boomer cried. My eyes! I can't stop seeing it now that you've said it!

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.