143 Quotes About Shock

Among the diners were two young Americans, Anna Strunsky and William English Walling. Having first met in the United States, they had crossed paths again in Russia, where they were each gathering material for magazine articles. The shock of seeing the student killed brought them closer. As the melodramatic Anna wrote to her brother, "Our love which has been filling our hearts from the hour of our first meeting suddenly burst into speech. It was was baptized in blood.

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?

Maybe, I think, when you've waited a long time to see something, you need to find your way to it in glimpses.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

We are the dead,' he said.'We are the dead,' echoed Julia dutifully.'You are the dead,' said an iron voice behind them.

Meet Mrs. Bundren

Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours through a telescope advance towards you, fist extended with the intention of punching you in the face. Even though I saw it coming it still hurt when it eventually hit me.

Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul....

It was a shock to us to see these.