Shudders Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

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
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
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
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
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
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds. — Louis Aragon
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
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
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
The true genius shudders at incompleteness. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didnâ€™t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing… — Richard Yates
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer
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
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
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
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 SÃ¶derberg
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

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