Trembling Quotes
244 Trembling quotes by 191 unique authors
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I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the…
— Oskar Kokoschka
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I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele…
— Eva Mozes Kor
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard,…
— Honore de Balzac
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This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to…
— Anais Nin
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Love is trembling happiness.
— Khalil Gibran
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
— Andre Gide
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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to…
— Henri Nouwen
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Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and…
— Jock Sturges
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The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of…
— Ayn Rand
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Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first…
— Ken Kesey
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...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
— Virginia Woolf
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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his…
— Ayn Rand
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...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a…
— Gaston Leroux
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
— Emily Dickinson
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
— Simone Weil
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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering…
— Cornelia Funke
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It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is…
— Ellen Hopkins
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I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend…
— Arundhati Roy
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I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a…
— William Butler Yeats
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We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They…
— Douglas Adams
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