Top 95 Quotes About Trembles
#1. I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
William Butler Yeats
#2. So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love.
Kabir
#3. Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days
it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language.
John Burnside
#4. Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.
Jean Rhys
#5. She trembles when she thinks of everything her quilrs must know about her
Amanda Lee
#6. The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by
Susanna Clarke
#8. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
James Montgomery
#9. You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick
#10. The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.
Corrie Ten Boom
#11. When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
R.A. Torrey
#12. In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
Bob Dylan
#13. Along the river's summer walk,
The withered tufts of asters nod;
And trembles on its arid stalk
the hoar plum of the golden-rod.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#14. And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.
Heinrich Heine
#15. The note of almost unbearable irritation sounding through the deliberately calm tone in which he has just spoken penetrates her child's heart like a cruel needle of ice. Her face falls grotesquely, her mouth trembles, tears - the sudden, despairing tears of a hurt child - fill her eyes to the brim.
Anna Kavan
#16. As always, we sit on the narrow steps that lead from the Old Bridge down to the sandbar. A pale silver moon trembles on the face of the water. A wooden boat lashed to a post modulates the sound of the current. Sitting with her, I feel her warm against my arm.
Haruki Murakami
#17. Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
Herman Melville
#18. America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.
Anneli Rufus
#19. At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting.
Erik Larson
#20. Violetta's voice trembles. "Raffaele is saying that all of us, all Elites, are in danger."
That we are doomed to be forever young.
Marie Lu
#21. We wait, and we rise; we move, and the earth trembles.
Max Gladstone
#22. Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
#23. The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with all his absolute power, is as much a slave as any of his subjects, and trembles at a janissary's frown.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
#24. one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a tray of wineglasses in an unsteady waiter's hands. Any music they make is random, involuntary and brief; one can't be still unless they all are, and they never are.
Jim Lewis
#25. Don't imagine she trembles over the dissecting table either, Smith. She has nerves of ice. Real Good can be as ruthless as Evil when it wants to accomplish something, let me tell you.
Kage Baker
#27. Summer, like a kiss, trembles when it first arrives.
Marty Rubin
#28. One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.
Herman Melville
#30. Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
Robert Cecil
#31. The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.
Gilbert Adair
#32. For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles slightly, but that's all.
Walter Kirn
#33. And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so.
- Javert
Victor Hugo
#34. The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter.
Stephen King
#35. When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body has something of this tremor at the moment when the mysterious hand of death reaches out to pluck a soul.
Victor Hugo
#36. When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce
#37. Show me a beautiful man whose heart trembles behind the scene of a theatre, and I shall love him forever.
Sofia Navarro
#38. When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Thomas Southerne
#39. But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.
Mark Hopkins
#40. Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Osip Mandelstam
#41. Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad
Sivananda
#42. As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Duke Of Wellington
#43. Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#44. Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
Beth Moore
#45. One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#46. His eyes close. His hand trembles. "I am the star in the night sky. I am the blade in the twilight. I am the god, the glory." His breath shudders out. He is afraid. "I am the Gold." And
Pierce Brown
#47. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles.
Victor Hugo
#49. I like the sober Callie, the one that I can talk to. The one that is so sweet it's fucking adorable. The one that trembles use from the feel of my breath. The one that I want to kiss and touch so fucking badly it drives me crazy. The one that makes me feel things ...
Jessica Sorensen
#50. Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes
#51. A tear that trembles for a little while
Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world
Wavers within its circle like a dream,
Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb
Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.
Henry Van Dyke
#52. The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
Bret Harte
#53. What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#54. Sometimes
a word is found so right it trembles
at the slightest explanation.
Rita Dove
#55. If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
Marty Rubin
#56. High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.
Vanna Bonta
#57. Honor you? he breathed. Sweetest Erienne, how could I not? You are ever in my thoughts, bending me, plucking at the fibers of my mind. The man inside me trembles whenever you're near, and I groan with agony for the touch of your hand laid upon me in a soft caress.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
#58. Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.
Sophocles
#59. Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.
Hannah More
#60. When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
Rumi
#61. She ignored his feverish, sweaty skin, his violent trembles, and she kissed him. As he passionately held her against him, the whole world disappeared. It was just him. It had always been him.
Allie Burke
#62. The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#63. The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,
It wavers to a rose.
Henry Austin Dobson
#64. What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. With nothing trembles.
To be afraid of nothing for no reason. And having to live with that nothing until dawn.
Ray Bradbury
#66. See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing.
Sing.
Donald Justice
#67. I start to pull back, but he hugs me tighter.
"You love me. You admitted it."
"I do love you."
His body trembles in response, as if he can't contain his emotions at my confession.
A.G. Howard
#68. This is the Lord's declaration. I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, e submissive A in spirit, f and trembles at My word.
Anonymous
#69. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#70. The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
Alain-Rene Lesage
#71. In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.
Marya Hornbacher
#72. Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer
Neal Pirolo
#73. A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.
Victor Hugo
#74. Without a family,man,alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois
#75. Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
Wallace Shawn
#76. * Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.
Pindar
#77. I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.
Isabel Allende
#78. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Anonymous
#79. Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish among its citizens the sense that this place is their home. They may feel that Israel is their fortress, but still not truly their home.
David Grossman
#80. I want to be in the water with you again, nani girl. Her knees went weak and trembles raced down her spine. Beautiful girl had been a special nickname only he used.
Robin Bielman
#81. The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
Philip James Bailey
#82. She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.
Nicole Lyons
#83. I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and who trembles at My word. Isaiah 66:2
Beth Moore
#84. Oh! then repeat the truth that never tires; No God is like the God my soul desires; He at whose voice heaven trembles, even He, Great as He is, knows how to stoop to me.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#85. If my arm trembles, it is because it has never been held by a pretty little hand like yours. I am a complete stranger to women; that is, I have never been used to them. You see, I am alone ... I don't even know how to talk to them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#86. ... my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions.
Franz Kafka
#87. His lower lip trembles. "Is this . . . are you from the network?" I look at him. Could he possibly be that stupid? "No," I say. "I'm from the world." He
Caroline Kepnes
#88. Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that trembles and fears, yet ever trust and loves, which is ever powerful, and ever confident;
Grant through the tears of repentance I may see more clearly the brightness and glories of the saving cross.
Arthur Bennett
#89. You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
Frank Sinatra
#90. When a hideous man becomes a father
And a son is born to him
In the middle of the night
He trembles and lights a lamp
And runs to look in anguish
On that child's face
To see who he resembles.
Zhuangzi
#91. Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
Freya Stark
#92. Ah, the inner eye blinks, and the spirit trembles, at the dangerous cost of seeing one's self as one is.
Gregory Maguire
#93. The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#94. I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as watermelon rind, veined blue from cold. There's that 'H' shape behind her knees. The H trembles softly with the swimming-water cold.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#95. When one heart moves the whole web trembles.
Mark Salzman
