Shock Quotes

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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp… — W. S. Gilbert
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… — C.S. Lewis
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt… — Cassandra Clare
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people… — Haruki Murakami
Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. — Robert Bloch
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say… — Marcel Proust
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. — Sylvia Plath
It comes as a great shockâ€¦to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegianceâ€¦has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a… — James A. Baldwin
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it;… — Flannery O'Connor
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn… — Bram Stoker
Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department. — Truman Capote
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a… — Patricia Briggs
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a… — Michael Cunningham
Iâ€™d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of… — Sarah Dessen
Sometimes I see something so moving I know Iâ€™m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out… — Don DeLillo
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run. — Michael Cunningham
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable.… — David Sheff

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