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Quotes About Tremble

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry
~ Edward Young
In its present form the Bible is the only object in the world which is not in need of either praise or sanctification. In its present form the Bible is the only point in the world from which God will never depart. This is the book to which Israel deferred; we must tremble to tamper with it.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing. Sing.
~ Donald Justice
He's overexcited. After he releases, he trembles and shakes like a woman with a slug wriggling up her arse.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The waxen fingers of the Countess, fingers of a holy image, turn up the card called L'Amoureux. Never, never before… never before has the Countess cast herself a fate involving L'Amoureux. She shakes, she trembles, her great eyes close beneath her finely veined, nervously throbbing eyelids; the lovely cartomancer has, this time, the first time, dealt herself a hand of love and death.
~ Angela Carter
What can be salvaged from your life? A pain that gently darkens over heart and brain, a fairy's touch, a cobweb's weight of pain, now makes me tremble at your right to live.
~ Robert Lowell
He lowered the goblet, and looked into it. The black water shifted as his hand trembled, and the surface glittered like the facets of polished stone. The noise of the water as it touched the sides was like the distant cries of the imprisoned.
~ Robin McKinley
Thus would it be with a man if, while remaining within the bounds of human reason, experience and feelings, he were suddenly to see God Himself. He would see Him but would not understand, even though he knew that it was God, and he would tremble with inconceivable sufferings of incomprehension.
~ Leonid Andreyev
The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
~ Sam Keen
Why must every individual and every nation tremble for their existence? Because each seeks his own wretched momentary advantage and refuses to subordinate it to the welfare and prosperity of the community.
~ Albert Einstein
Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Hesitate in August. Be shy. Let your toes tremble in their sandals. However, pick the grape and eat with confidence.
~ Anne Sexton
Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse. No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!
~ Robert Silverberg
Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
~ William Gurnall
The day dawns smiling, rational and bright, We're tangled in a net of dreams at night. From green fields we come home contentedly, 11770 A bird croaks: meaning what?—catastrophe! Bedeviled by superstitions, we imagine The least thing is a sign, a portent, omen. And so we tremble, feeling lost, alone. The door creaks and we stiffen—there's no one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My brother comes now, Alia said. Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.
~ Frank Herbert
Suzette was different, her responses were honest, her need real not feigned to jolly the exercises along, and that passion in her had called out to his own. Feeling her tremble with excitement had excited him, tasting her passion had made his own hunger stretch and roar, and just watching her find her release had nearly brought on his own. He wanted to possess that, and if it took marriage to do it, then dammit, Gretna Green here he came.
~ Lynsay Sands
began to be aware of the tremble of insects as they played their instruments underneath the stems, down at the very base of the heat.
~ Saul Bellow
And why should I feel ashamed in that dreadful moment when my entire self trembles on the edge of being and not-being
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To sentimentalize something is to savor rather than to suffer the sadness of it, is to sigh over the prettiness of it rather than to tremble at the beauty of it, which may make demands of us or pose fearsome threats.
~ Frederick Buechner
When brother fled from brother, when lovers passed Each other by in ignorance, when fathers failed To recognize their sons, when human words no more Were understood, nor human laws, that was when The meaning of it all assailed me and I trembled: It was my nation's parting god!
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were only one small woman, and you were looking up at an enormous edifice, towering and monolithic, but what you wrote made the whole structure start to tremble and shudder, and finally, it all came down, thundering and crashing. It wasn't just because of your book, of course, but your book made it impossible for people to think of slavery in the old way.
~ Roxana Robinson
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
~ Che Guevara
See how the fearful chandelier Trembles above you Each time you open your mouth To sing. Sing. —DONALD JUSTICE
~ Anne Lamott