Shivering Quotes
68 quotes by 63 authors
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great…
— George Eliot
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it…
— Joseph Lyons
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life…
— Jane Smiley
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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of…
— Aisha Tyler
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Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From…
— Richard Bach
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...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the…
— John Harte
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The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
— Sylvia Plath
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I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned…
— Edvard Munch
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All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying…
— James Connolly
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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring…
— Lucretius
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The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it…
— Charles Dickens
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A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
— Ani DiFranco
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The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's…
— John Dos Passos
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I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.
— Tony Wheeler
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and…
— Og Mandino
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By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One…
— Dorothy Parker
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I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the…
— Pablo Neruda
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She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws…
— Thomas Pynchon
Who Wrote These Shivering Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 68 Shivering Quotes, led by these top contributors: