Actions Quotes Logo

Shock Quotes

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing t...

Show More
Picture of Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse

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

Show More

For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind...

Show More

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud...

Show More

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declen...

Show More
Picture of Edward Gibbon
Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, ins...

Show More

Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -" screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the doo...

Show More
Picture of J. K. Rowling
J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedles...

Show More

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

Show More

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juve...

Show More

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

I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Withou...

Show More
M
Mark HelprinA Soldier of the Great War

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

Show More

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

The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle im...

Show More
Picture of Steven Pinker
Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.