Shudder Quotes

115 Shudder quotes by 99 unique authors

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble… — Mark Twain
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing… — David Ebershoff
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through… — Tayeb Salih
Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder — Leon Kass
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is… — Lewis Mumford
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over… — Alberto Manguel
I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not… — Sigmund Freud
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs… — Thomas Carlyle
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from… — Gerard De Nerval
What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and… — Victor Hugo
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans,… — David Duke
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works. — Jude Bijou
Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine… — Charles Darwin
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;… — Jean de la Bruyere
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. — Unknown Author
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. — Denis Diderot
Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to… — Martin Caidin
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure.… — Mark Haddon
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for… — Bela Lugosi
There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator… — Rachel Nichols

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