#shock

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#again #around #because #did #expected

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River) ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#shell-shocked #survivors #the-walking-dead #death

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#because #i #i see #myself #recognize

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock. ↗

— David Bailey

#going #i #know #live #shock

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock. ↗

— Sean Booth

#bit #cause #designed #getting #heads

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#break up #first #gone #having #i

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star. ↗

— Belinda Carlisle

#full #i #life #lived #many

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#did #ever #first #hardly #light

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#daily #occurrence #occurs #shocking