#shock

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#born #changed #changes #eager #go

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down. ↗

— Teri Terry

#kill #pain #shock #death

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #christlessness #christology #fundamentalism

I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied. ↗

— Daniel Díez Ginestar

#diez #earth #ginestar #global #life

I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#confusion #faythe-sanders #love #mistake #life

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#absolutism #catholicism #christianity #god #jesus-shock

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have. ↗

— Robert B. Reich

#happiness #money

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#free #had #i #into #morning

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#heard #i #nixon #saddened #shocked

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff. ↗

— Rick Baker

#frankenstein #generation #grew #many #mummy