It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the...

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

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...

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or ‘fearlessly’- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though...

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

Denial exists when three beliefs intersect:1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you.3. It cannot happen to you now.

I had a dream about you. We were both surrounded by poor people, but there was one big difference—I was poor, but you were rich. That’s why I was shocked when you tried to rob...

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

He was dead. I was fixated on the horrid bite wound on my left forearm. For a long time I watched, hypnotized, as the blood oozed and dripped.

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

Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They’re not skilled. They’re looking for shock value.

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Ricky just listens. He isn’t shocked. He isn’t surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me....

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect...

I didn’t know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark’s teeth. Locating them wasn’t really the problem, but pulling them out of my...

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

Her voice faltered to a stop. Fear and confusion clutched at her throat like some terrible beast, and suddenly she was finding it difficult to breathe.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

I’ve been on shows that go for shock value.

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn’t worth attention are the things that attracts attention

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you’re supposed to do, but in fact you’re not there at...

After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle down to the new condition of things and feel that all possibility of...

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the...

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

We thought it was critical to continue our restoration efforts. We really needed to be able to do something that would avoid severe rate shock. That’s what we’re trying to do.

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

What a shock. The guy was so talented. The man is the group, are you serious? Just awesome. Irreplaceable ? that’s the word. I tried to steal him a long time ago, in my mind;...

I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,Children dying in the road,Crawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her...

Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I wouldn’t have thought much about, except that when I was in high school...

For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father’s dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and yet arrived at that place and time and that body lying...

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.

I’m afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied.

When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn’t believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines...

Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the...

There are two types of fear:There is a fear of something that is presently before you, be it a monster under your bed or a knife welding maniac pounding his fist through your door. It’s...

If you see the footage, the complete shock on my face is so genuine.

Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -” screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the door to the ramparts burst open once more and there stood Snape, his wand clutched...

She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.

Lo que había soñado, no tenía por qué cumplirse.

This terrible thing that happened in my life was such a shock because I never saw any signs of violence or abuse in their marriage,

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?

I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can’t be done. I believe that’s why sexual love, which needn’t be, is so...

{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of , just after the news of death}We were inexpressibly shocked to hear of the sudden death of your dear husband and our best loved friend. Most tenderly...

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days,...

People here are in shock, really sort of saddened. I think everybody has the feeling like, what’s next?

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

There have to be some boundaries. The butt of the joke cannot be God or the prophet or the religion itself. I’m very careful about sacrilegious humor. I’m not a shock comic who’s going to...