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Quotes About Tremble

I shudder to say it.
~ Virgil
It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can't help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.
~ Dalton Trumbo
God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear, even if earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!
~ Unknown
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
~ Unknown
For if God shall come to you indeed, and visit you with the forgiveness of sins, that visit removeth the guilt, but increaseth the sense of thy filth, and the sense of this that God hath forgiven a filthy sinner, will make thee both rejoice and tremble.
~ John Bunyan
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
~ Holly Black, Ironside
I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound, as if a vessel filled with liquid had been placed on its side and now was slowly emptying out.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I felt myself tremble, but I would not let him see it. Great gods smell fear like sharks smell blood, and they will devour you for it jus the same.
~ Madeline Miller
Who are you? What do you want? Who are you?" Her voice was light and fast and intense and her mouth trembled. She seemed to be on the narrow edge of emotional disaster, holding herself in check with the greatest effort. And about her was a rich and heavy scent of brandy, and an unsteadiness, the eyes too swift and not exactly in focus.
~ John D. MacDonald
Tremble ye Nations who secure before,   115 Laught at those Arms that' gainst our selves we bore;
~ John Dryden
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
~ John Jakes
It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.
~ Maggie Nelson
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
~ Emir Kusturica
I am made to tremble and I fear!
~ Pope John XXIII
Fear is a manifested lie, created by you influenced by others beliefs. Fear doesn't exist because it is an illusion. Fear is a lie which is created to make you think that you're not worth more than you actually are. Fear is a lie enforced to control and make you tremble. Fear was made for superiority gain.
~ Unknown
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Finally, and most notably, the ever-present tremble gave A.P.'s voice a slight quaver, so that when he spoke, it was like a ripple on a pond, and when he sang, it was faster, like the shimmering rush of a mountain creek over mossy rocks below.
~ Unknown
Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods… But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall
~ Mary E. Pearson
But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Gwladus was right. The tremble turned her from madwoman to frightened maid.
~ Nicola Griffith
Peretur patted Bony's shoulder, and could not tell if the horse trembled or she did. Was this fear?
~ Nicola Griffith
Every time she swallowed, she gleamed. Every time she lifted a hand, she glittered. Every time she breathed, she glinted. She was breathing fast; her legs trembled; the glitter and gleam and glint became an endless shimmer.
~ Nicola Griffith
I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had deliberately missed the bar, but that Takeichi should have been the one came as a bolt from the blue. I felt as if I had seen the world before me burst in an instant into the raging flames of hell. It was all I could do to suppress a wild shriek of terror.
~ Osamu Dazai
Tremble in fear as Pasphrfep the Pillager comes to feast on your souls.
~ Unknown