Quotes about Shock

The shock of the real.

It was shocking, deeply shocking.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental disruption results. Mild cases – hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases – madness and suicide.

I don't know that you can speak of shock … Nothing is too shocking for me. I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable, predictable, and meaningful.

I shuddered
like the earth split open by lightning.

It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.

Characterized by strong faith reactions. Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental disruption results. Mild cases — hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases — madness and suicide.

I was stunned with outrage.

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

Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless.

Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental discruption results. Mild cases - hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases - madness and suicide.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

I was completely overwhelmed…The body registers stress, whether good or bad, in the same way. So if it’s super exciting or super traumatising, your body is in equal distress. Though I would choose excitement over trauma every day.