143 Quotes About Shock

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

There is a shock that comes so quickly and strikes so deep that the blow is internalized even before then skin feels it. The strike must first reach bone marrow, then ascend slowly to the brain where the slowpoke intellect records the deed.

The serious lack of industry recognized training on biologically toxic systems was truly shocking in high altitude astronomy.

So long awaited that its coming was a shock.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

I was crying for the little girl I had been, who had withstood terrifying nightmares of death and blood and war and maiming. And when I had tried to share those horrors, the shock on my friends' faces had told me I was not normal, and I should keep my dreams to myself.

SHOCK ABSORBERSVeterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully