Top 283 Trembling Quotes & Sayings

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy.

Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.

The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses"-our America trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye

As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.

Do it trembling if you must, but do it!

Love is trembling happiness.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.