Quivering Quotes

68 Quivering quotes by 60 unique authors

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson
Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting… — Hartley Coleridge
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the… — Victor Hugo
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing — Don DeLillo
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday… — Franz Kafka
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering… — Cornelia Funke
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and… — R A Salvatore
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing… — Leo Tolstoy
The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit! — Jennifer Rardin
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too. — Jim Thompson
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.… — Elizabeth Bishop
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say… — Lauren Willig
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere,… — Khalil Gibran
and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot
And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came… — Khalil Gibran
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love… — Guy de Maupassant
Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of… — Jeff Lindsay
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star — Maud Hart Lovelace
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears… — Rabindranath Tagore
But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I… — Meg Cabot
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I… — H.G. Wells
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. — H.G. Wells

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