Shock Quotes - Page 4

• Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Pain, Emotion, Draws

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• When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Morning, Brother

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• When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

  Susan Orlean

  Lying, Home, Son

  "Facts of Life" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Motivation, Fear

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

  Jane Pauley

  Character, Years, Knowing

  "TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley". www.pbs.org. 2008.

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• The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

  Christine Pelosi

  Jocks, Free Market, Rant

  "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

  Shimon Peres

  Iran, Young Generation, People

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• It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

  Josh Radnor

  Kindness, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  Jules Renard

  Truth, Power, Appeals

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• Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Congratulations, Writing, Winning

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• After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

  Naomi Wolf

  September 11, Littles, October

  "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

  Neil Young

  Men, People, Agree

  "Neil Young Returns to the Harvest: Music Legend Talks 'Harvest Moon' LP". Interview with Alan Light, www.rollingstone.com. January 21, 1993.

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• Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Impact, World

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

  Colm Toibin

  Fun, Intelligent, Australia

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• One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Passion, One Day, Driven

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.192, Penguin

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• I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

  Dorothy Parker

  Happy Endings, Billions, Humans

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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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 shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Block, Dark, Long

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• 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 hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sadness, Humility, Thinking

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• ...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.

  Michelle Richmond

  Moving, Thinking, Despair

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• 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, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Sleep, Talking

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.193, Broadview Press

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• 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 smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Eye, Son

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• 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 like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Two, Drawing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.223, Random House

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• Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

  Robert Bloch

  Noise, Heard

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.5, The Overlook Press

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• 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 equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

  Marcel Proust

  Summer, Running, Book

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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• 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

  Self Questioning, Hurtful, Together

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.555, Anchor

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