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Shock Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.”

Mitch Hedberg

Dark Humor, Gifts, Holidays, Exaggeration, Shock

2. “Future shock is a time phenomenon, a product of the greatly accelerated rate of change in society.”

Alvin Toffler

Future, Shock, Time, Change, Acceleration

3. “Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.”

Alvin Toffler

Future, Shock, Change, Disorientation, Adaptation

4. “Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”

Alvin Toffler

Future, Shock, Change, Stress, Adaptation

5. “What woman alive today would not be horrified to touch the head of her decapitated lover?’ Madame.”

Stendhal

Horror, Love, Tragedy, Shock, Fear

6. “The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.”

Thomas Carlyle

Sin, Security, Shock, Morality, Awareness

7. “When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Writing, Shock, Creativity, Reaction, Storytelling

8. “To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.”

Julian Barnes

Reflection, Self-awareness, Perspective, Shock, Psychology

9. “You can never prepare for this new reality in which you have been dunked.”

Julian Barnes

Reality, Change, Shock, Adjustment, Experience

10. “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet,” the Danish Nobel physicist Niels Bohr once said.”

Satya Nadella

Quantum, Physics, Shock, Understanding, Science

11. “Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.”

Will Rogers

Mothers, Generations, Shock, Change, Perspective

12. “I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can’t be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it’s bad.”

Donald Trump

Pope, Shock, Donald Trump, Criticism, Surprise

13. “The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days – after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.”

Viktor Frankl

Auschwitz, Shock, Resilience, Mortality, Human Condition

14. “Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Atrocity, Shock, Comparison, Abu Ghraib, Humanity

15. “The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.”

Aldous Huxley

Shock, Societal Norms, Change, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Cultural Critique

16. “I don’t really know,” I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.”

Sylvia Plath

Deep Shock, Self Realization, Honest Admission, Shock, Realization, True

17. “Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”

Herman Melville

Genius Recognition, World Genius, Recognition Shock, Genius, World, Shock

18. “To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.”

Carl Jung

Self Realization, Personal Truth, Inner Discovery, Shock, Identity, Acquaintance

19. “If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o’clock.”

Franz Kafka

Calm, Responsibility, Shock, Time, Action, Reaction

20. “It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.”

John Steinbeck

Nerve-Wracking, Shock, Insanity, Friendships, Emotion, Crisis

21. “The children and their parents were too flabber-gasted to speak. They were staggered. They were dumbfounded. They were bewildered and dazzled. They were completely bowled over by the hugeness of the whole thing. They simply stood and stared.”

Roald Dahl

Amazement, Family Reaction, Surprise, Shock, Reaction, Family

22. “I knew immediately, of course, that this was none other than The Grand High Witch herself. I knew also why she had worn a mask. She could never have moved around in public, let alone book in at a hotel, with her real face. Everyone who saw her would have run away screaming.”

Roald Dahl

Witch Revelation, Masked Identity, Shocking Appearance, Witchcraft, Identity, Shock

23. “It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians is you.”

James Baldwin

Perspective, Identity, Historical Injustice, Shock, Representation, Self-Realization

24. “It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”

James Baldwin

Identity, Shock, Stereotypes, Reality, Childhood

25. “Suddenly his heart seemed to turn to ice and his bowels to water.”

George Orwell

Fear, Vulnerability, Emotion, Shock, Humanity

26. “The second political thing I did was to say ‘The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.’ That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.”

John Lennon

Controversy, Fame, Shock, Publicity, Cultural Impact

27. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Inequality, Health Care, Injustice, Humanity, Shock

28. “Et tu, Brute?”

William Shakespeare

Betrayal, Friendship, Trust, Shock, Loyalty

29. “The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.”

William Shakespeare

Loss, Greatness, Collapse, Impact, Shock

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