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

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American writer 1964

Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer

“Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“What is this Self of yours? What was the necessary condition for making the thing conceived this time into you, just you and not someone else?”

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist

"Seek for the Road" (1925)
Context: For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and women have brought forth in pain. A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man sat on this spot; like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying light on the glaciers. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. He felt pain and brief joy as you do. Was he someone else? Was it not you yourself? What is this Self of yours? What was the necessary condition for making the thing conceived this time into you, just you and not someone else?

“Rance: How shocking! His abnormal condition has driven him to seek refuge in religion. Always the last ditch stand of a man on the brink of disaster.”

Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author

What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I

“"If you stand behind a wall, you woudn't be able to see through it so as when you distance yourself from a pit you can't determine it's depth Just get there".”

Dr. Manuel

“It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?”

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

Esoteric Mind Power

“I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to—Well, we warned you.”

Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter

Prologue; Edward Van Sloan actually comes out from behind an on-screen curtain to deliver this speech.
Frankenstein (1931)