Quotes about Being Jolted

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

The shock of the real.

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.

When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.

One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything

Terrorists strike like lightning- hard, fast, and without warning.

the moment there is a power cut

I shuddered
like the earth split open by lightning.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Here we received the first blows: and it was so new and senseless that we felt no pain, neither in body nor in spirit. Only a profound amazement: how can one hit a man without anger?

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. The first sort of breakage seems to happen quick-the second kind happens almost without your knowing it but is realized suddenly indeed.

The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

He turned his head, reacted in a microsecond, and hit the deck just before a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball zipped past his ear and clanged into the wire backstop. Had the pitch been another inch lower or a few miles an hour faster, he would have been beaned and, at that speed, possibly killed.

He had an ability to surprise, as does every major idiot, and, of course, to irritate, all in the space of a single second.