Quotes About Tension

Suspense is strong glue between the reader and the writing.

You take your reader to the cliff's edge. There you hang your hero by his fingertips. You are not to behave like a compassionate human being. You are not a rescuer. Your job is to avoid rescuing the hero as long as possible. You leave him hanging.

Suspense builds when the reader wants something to happen and it isn't happening yet. Or something is happening and the reader wants it to stop, now. And it doesn't.

I'm low-level angry most of the time, never really know why,' Simon told him. 'You got the brunt of it. This time.

I wait for him to announce my presence, holding his gaze, refusing to look away, determined that this beautiful boy see the face he sentences to death with this next words.

Miguel: We've only gone over 100x! Mika: K—gonna roc!! Billy: Glad ur babysitting, dumbass. U know how 2 shoot, right? Mika: Screw u! Kevin: Cut the crap—stay focused treat us like animals we'll show them animals Mika: Hear that! Miguel: Payback a bitch!

America has turned into an angry nation with two warring factions that ceaselessly demand that we join in their fight,

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.

Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.

Korku cezadan çok daha beterdir, çünkü ceza bellidir, a??r da olsa, hafif de, hiçbir zaman belirsizliÄŸin dehÅŸeti kadar, o sonsuz gerilimin ürkünçlüÄŸü kadar kötü deÄŸildir.

the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.

La paura è peggio del castigo; perché alla fine il castigo è qualcosa di determinato e, sia pesante o meno, è sempre meglio della spaventosa incertezza, della tremenda tensione che si prolunga all'infinito.

Estos momentos vivos están narrados en un estilo clásico de la literatura de aventuras, pero con la atrayente tensión de su pluma que percibe el latido del corazón humano ante el peligro o el momento singular.

bir tel gibi gergindim ve varl???n?n ona her dokunu?uyla t?nl?yordum.

Nuestro amigo le salió enseguida al encuentro con el peón de su rey, pero Czentovic volvió a hacer una pausa sin fin, casi insoportable; era como cuando cae un rayo terrible y uno espera con el corazón palpitante que llegue el trueno, y el trueno no acaba nunca de llegar.

there must be a perpetual state of tension between torment and ecstasy if man is to be projected into the infinite.

Tragische Spannung, sie ergibt sich nicht nur aus dem Übermaß einer Gestalt, sondern jederzeit aus dem Mißverhältnis eines Menschen zu seinem Schicksal.

between a woman who has once let a man see her desire and that man the atmosphere is charged with mysterious, dangerous tension.

La multitud de manos claras, nerviosas y siempre en actitud de espera en torno al tapete verde, todas asomando por la caverna de su respectiva manga, cada una de forma y color diferentes, algunas desnudas, otras adornadas con anillos y pulseras tintineantes, muchas velludas como animales salvajes, muchas otras húmedas y retorcidas como anguilas, y todas, sin embargo, crispadas y trémulas por una enorme impaciencia.

The power of love is not properly gauged if it is estimated only by the object that inspires it, if the tension preceding it is not taken into account--that gloomy space of disillusionment and loneliness which stretches in front of all the great events of the heart

Come talvolta un artista, per dar prova delle proprie energie creative, cerca di proposito un soggetto esteriormente modesto invece di uno patetico e universale, così di tanto in tanto il destino cerca un eroe insignificante per dimostrare come anche da una materia scadente possa svilupparsi la più alta tensione, da un'anima debole e mal disposta una grandiosa tragedia.

sie fühlte sich wehrlos seinem Spiel gegenüber, und so unsäglich

La música me iba envolviendo de inquietud, mi nerviosismo era cada vez más apasionado, me tuve que poner en tensión para contenerme con todas mis fuerzas, hasta tal punto era intenso el afán de mis labios por acercarse a tu mano. (...) Era incapaz de soportar tenerte tan cerca y tan lejos a la vez, a mi lado en la penumbra.