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Quotes About Tremble

You have a light in you that's almost blinding. But in me there's only darkness. Sometimes I think it's like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don't need the darkness.
~ Anne Rice
Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
On the verge of a decision we all tremble: hope pauses with fluttering wings.
~ George Eliot
The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
~ Sam Keen
The truth was that he loved her as he had never loved anyone in his life before, with a love so strong it made him tremble at the violence of his feelings.
~ Sanjida O'Connell
Love-bittersweet, irrepressible-loosens my limbs and i tremble.
~ Sappho
Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.
~ Eugene Delacroix
It is the thought of the possible favor of God and of his mercy that makes me tremble with a sort of fear. On the other hand the sense of being like a barren fig tree for Christ tears my heart.
~ Simone Weil
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson)
~ John Price
A man who trembles dreams of making others tremble, a man who lives in terror ends his days in ferocity. Hence the case of the Roman emperors.
~ Emil M. Cioran
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. (Ps. 46:1–3)
~ Scotty Smith
I should not be able to make any one understand how exciting it all was. You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
~ Mark Twain
The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
~ Ayn Rand
The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us.
~ Ayn Rand
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
~ Stephen Crane
Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.
~ Stephen King
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence.
~ Emir Kusturica
I shudder when relating it.
~ Virgil
I started to tremble, it was a moment in your life when daily things pass away from you, when all your concerns seem to vanish, and you are allowed by God a little space of clarity and grace. When you see that God himself is in your wife and in your children, and they hold in trust for you your own measure of goodness. And in the manner of your treatment of them lies your own salvation.
~ Sebastian Barry
Earthquake report: This is the big one.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
~ Sappho
The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed
~ Helene Cixous
They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them. Jeremiah 33:9
~ Beth Moore