143 Quotes About Shock

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

I couldn't have been more shocked if he pulled a pink elephant out of his ass!

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John.

Shock is a funny thing. Things get both sharp and fuzzy. Time stretches and distorts. Things come rushing into focus and seem larger than they are. Other things vanish to a single point.

Shock is a cold hand on my shoulder, a complete standstill in my brain and chest and veins.

Americans became desensitized to scandalous revelation, whether it involved sex or drug use or cheating on a college exam. You could disappoint us, certainly, but we were now a very hard country to shock.

Outside the window, just past my aunt, spread the windswept sky of Bain. Gulls swung between the towers. The sun struck a distant window that glittered so brightly I thought, for a moment, it was a tear in the corner of my eye. How quickly the world comes down, as if it were only made of paper.

there was a big old shocked space in my head where the thoughts ought to be