Top 162 Shudder Quotes & Sayings

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a national stage.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. I always say that I have more questions than answers.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Bluh-huh-huh" Minho groaned, a shudder of repulsion, like he'd just stepped in a pile of klunk.

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

If the thought of cold tomato soup makes you shudder, take it from a veteran, it's like a creamy gazpacho, but in a decent society, nobody should have to find out.

A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while 'Men Behaving Badly' remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever aspire to Gary and Tony's eternal adolescence?

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

Anyone look back at their high school career and just shudder at what you got away with and didn't die?

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

I shudder when relating it.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it’s Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger’s face into a life.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Truth: I loathe the idea of being hired because of my gender, and I shudder at the thought that one day I show up on set, and half of the crew thinks, 'Here comes the quota hire.'

I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Does anyone ever shudder with the crap that you pulled off and didn't die?

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?