Trembling Quotes

244 Trembling quotes by 191 unique authors

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying… — James Salter
I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was… — Sue Monk Kidd
It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a… — Scott Westerfeld
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own… — Ray Bradbury
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else… — Donna Tartt
LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my… — William Blake
You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could… — Lisa Kleypas
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of… — William Faulkner
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies… — Ellen Hopkins
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. — Jerzy Kosinski
I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of… — Anne Lamott
Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling… — Bruno Schulz
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my… — Vladimir Nabokov
It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you… — Lisa Kleypas
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as… — Maggie O'Farrell
I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling… — Edvard Munch
He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly,… — Diana Gabaldon
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when… — Ayn Rand
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree;… — Rainer Maria Rilke
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry. — Jane Austen
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. — John Keats
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life,"… — Paulo Freire

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