Shuddering Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
— Georg Trakl
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There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking…
— Lawrence Anthony
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He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are…
— Brad Dourif
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Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or…
— John Graves
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
— Oscar Wilde
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For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook…
— James M. Barrie
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That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be…
— Thomas Hardy
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Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans,…
— Jack Kerouac
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And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous…
— Che Guevara
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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…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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For a second, he was still, blinking. Then he shook off all the blankets and coats so that his arms were free and he wrapped…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?"…
— Libba Bray
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It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on…
— Suzanne Collins
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I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who Wrote These Shuddering Quotes
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