Quotes About Convulsion

Something convulsed. Something changed. It was about language again. Not a writer's private language, but a country's public language, its public imagination of itself. Suddenly, things that would have been unthinkable to say in public became acceptable. Officially acceptable. Virile national pride, which had more to do with hate than love, flowed like noxious lava on the streets.

College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

There may be involuntary movements or shaking of the body;

His orgasm was short, doubled and tripled with a quick convulsion, so private, so disciplined that he made no cry, no whisper, no exhortation.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.

61I am prepared to... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Se había equivocado? Era terriblemente histérica, pero con rara manifestación desbordante; los nervios desordenados repiqueteaban hacia adentro, y de aquí la súbita tenacidad en un disparate, el brusco abandono de una convicción; y en los prodromos de las crisis, la obstinación creciente, convulsiva, edificándose a grandes bloques de absurdos. Abusaba de la morfina, por angustiosa necesidad y por elegancia.

Observe this moment -how it convulses- The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paperclip. The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like the body of a boy.

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.9

Anger just tears to pieces the human psyche and there is a continuous smile of rage and an endless laugh of despair. A person convulses and cannot stop laughing and then dies spiritually and a new personality is born with an eternal smile of awareness.

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”