Aghast Quotes

• At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
  A fisherman stood aghast,
  To see the form of a maiden fair,
  Lashed close to a drifting mast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Sea, Fisherman

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.39

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• Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

  William Faulkner

  Looks, Madness, Satan

  William Faulkner (1936). “Absalom, Absalom!”, Random House (NY)

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• Un feudo menor se había levantado contra su cruel y avaro señor, con cientos de personas rodeando su casa señorial, amenazando con quemarla hasta los cimientos. El mensaje de socorro del noble, presa del pánico, fue respondido con la llegada de un único Ranger. Atónito, el noble se enfrentó a la solitaria figura encapuchada. "¿Han enviado a un solo montaraz?", dijo incrédulo. "¿Un solo hombre?" "¿Cuántos motines tienen?", respondió el Ranger.

  John Flanagan

  Men, People, House

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• De alguna manera esta locura debe cesar. Debemos detenernos ahora. Hablo como hijo de Dios y hermano de los pobres que sufren en Vietnam. Hablo por aquellos cuya tierra está siendo arrasada, cuyos hogares están siendo destruidos, cuya cultura está siendo subvertida. Hablo por los pobres de Estados Unidos que están pagando el doble precio de las esperanzas rotas en casa y de la muerte y la corrupción en Vietnam. Hablo como ciudadano del mundo, en nombre del mundo que contempla atónito el camino que hemos tomado. Hablo como estadounidense a los líderes de mi propia nación. La gran iniciativa en esta guerra es nuestra. La iniciativa para detenerla debe ser nuestra.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Children, War

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

  A. E. Housman

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Voice, Dwelling, Departed

  Edgar Allan Poe (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales. Eureka, an essay on the material and spiritual universe”, p.294

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• ¿Alice?" Ella giró hacia la puerta, sus faldas girando suavemente. "¿Sí?", dijo a la fuerza. "¿Sabes lo que tengo en la mano?" "No. "¿Quieres adivinarlo?" "¿Una horca?", preguntó ella en un intento de frivolidad, con la esperanza de invocar su anterior humor juguetón. "No, querida", respondió él secamente. "Una llave de tu habitación". "¿Qué?", exclamó ella, atónita. "No me gustaría tener que usarla". "¿Tienes una llave de esta habitación?" "Mm-hmm." Dio un paso hacia la puerta, con el pánico subiendo por su garganta. "¡Te estás tirando un farol!" "¿Quiere que se lo demuestre?

  Gaelen Foley

  Hate, Rising Up, Keys

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Lying, Believe, Facts

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• El amor por la escritura surge a una edad muy temprana. A mí, por ejemplo, me afectaron mucho los cómics. Y mucha gente que se me acerca y empieza a hablarme de escribir, cuando empiezo a hablarles de los "Cuatro Fantásticos", me miran atónitos. Dicen: "¿Los Cuatro Fantásticos? Eso no es literatura". Yo digo: "Sí, pero lo era cuando yo tenía 11 años". Eso era literatura.

  Walter Mosley

  Libro, Escribir, Hablar

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Couple, White

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• I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.

  Daniel Henninger

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Por los bosques grises, por el pantano, donde acampan el sapo y el tritón, por los tétricos estanques y charcas, donde moran los Gouls. Por cada rincón más impío, por cada rincón más melancólico, el viajero se encuentra, atónito, con recuerdos del pasado. Formas amortajadas que se sobresaltan y suspiran al pasar junto al caminante. Formas vestidas de blanco de amigos entregados hace tiempo; En agonía, a la Tierra - y al Cielo.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, Agony

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

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• Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.

  Robert Graves

  Boys, Blood, Hands

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Christian, Religious, Careers

  "Comic alarmed by religious jokes limit" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

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• Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.

  George Will

  Pensamiento, Clase, América

  "Dems Vs. Wal-Mart". www.jewishworldreview.com. September 14, 2006.

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• The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.

  Morgan Neville

  Editing, Opposites, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Hands, Voice, Mourning

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• ¿Construir una casa?", exclamó John. "Para Wendy", dijo Curly. "¿Para Wendy?" dijo John, atónito. "¡Pero si sólo es una niña!". "Por eso", explicó Curly, "somos sus sirvientes.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Women, House

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.67, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

  Amy Chua

  Father, Self Esteem, Parent

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