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Quotes About Shudder

What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.
~ Beth Moore
After a while he began to shudder, and turned away from the scene as if frightened; yet could give no explanation save that he was overcome with the vastness, darkness, remoteness, antiquity, and mystery of the oceanic abysses.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.
~ Bernard Cornwell
At last it occurred to me that I could not continue to sit at my desk, drink whisky and shudder at the thought of the Fordites.
~ Susan Howatch
The night was warm and there was no cause to shudder save that a twinge of joy, of dark joy can shake the body, when a man is alone, under the moon, on a secret mission, with hunger in his heart and ice in his brain.
~ Mervyn Peake
There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagarian Eastern travelers, glancing from car windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying comparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without.
~ Booth Tarkington
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.
~ Tayeb Salih
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
~ Saint Bernard
The house seems to shudder in that moment as if the entire world has shifted an inch to the right…
~ Frank Darabont
James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology; He wants us to know and love Him.
~ Francis Chan
"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
~ Gerard de Nerval
A vague memory stirred of a moonlit bathroom and blood, black in the moonlight, pooling on the floor. Jadrin shuddered and the boy opened his eyes. They were the colour of violets.
~ Storm Constantine
She looked him full in the face with the most amazed expression. Even now he could not think of it without a shudder. And after a horribly long stare Alison had burst out laughing yes, laughing. She laughed so hard that she choked herself and someone had to beat her on the back. Finally she excused herself from the table. And all through that tormenting evening whenever he looked at her she gave him such a mocking smile.
~ Carson McCullers
Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder'.
~ Geoffrey Willans
Here memory was simply a cold cloud to be shuddered at.
~ Iris Murdoch
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.
~ John Keats
It seemed to me—the reader may smile, but must not doubt my word—it seemed to me, then, that I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of burning heat, and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron. I shuddered, and involuntarily let it fall upon the floor.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I can't imagine a more aesthetically offensive item of footwear than Crocs. That little strap! I shudder. ...I know Crocs are affordable. Well, so are Converse and lots of other brands that don't look like hooves.
~ Tim Gunn
A shudder ran through Paul D. A bone-cold spasm that made him clutch his knees. He didn't know if it was bad whiskey, nights in the cellar, pig fever, iron bits, smiling roosters, fired feet, laughing dead men, hissing grass, rain, apple blossoms, neck jewelry, Judy in the slaughterhouse, Halle in the butter, ghost-white stairs, chokecherry trees, cameo pins, aspens, Paul A's face, sausage or the loss of a red, red heart.
~ Toni Morrison
Down, down they sped. Above them the earth sealed shut with a shudder
~ Kris Waldherr
Gee, Vernon, now you're scaring me. Not the union rep. She gave a deliberate shudder. You won't be so smart when you're hit with a lawsuit, and I start bleeding that rich husband you hooked. My God, Peabody, a lawsuit. I feel faint. Don't worry, Lieutenant, I'll catch you.
~ J.D. Robb
Spielberg may have intended 'Schindler's List' as the opposite of entertainment, but the film grossed $321 million and engaged audiences as only entertainment can, coaxing them to cry and shudder, leaving their hearts more heavy than broken.
~ Stephen J. Dubner
And since I wanted you to feel as pleasurable the one thing that frightens us—namely, the metaphysical shudder—I had only to choose (from among the model plots) the most metaphysical and philosophical: the detective novel.
~ Umberto Eco