Shudders Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
— Max Lerner
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one…
— Anatole France
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Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one…
— Richard Rorty
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
— Louis Aragon
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I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange…
— Georg Trakl
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The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The…
— Robert Bridges
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I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
— James A. Michener
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing…
— Richard Yates
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What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
— Peter Singer
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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your…
— Cesare Pavese
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Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab…
— Dylan Thomas
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The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing him…
— Matt Chandler
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People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The…
— Hjalmar Söderberg
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is…
— George Eliot
Who Wrote These Shudders Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Shudders Quotes as follows: