(30 quotes found)
“In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.”
Paul Gauguin
“To those whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned, and those who are patient under that which afflicts them, and those who keep up prayer, and spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them. (The Pilgrimage 22.35)”
quran
“The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.”
Andre Gide
“Love is trembling happiness.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...”
Christina G. Rossetti
“To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.”
Lauren Bacall
“Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.”
Emile M. Cioran
“Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.”
Vittorio Alfieri
“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”
Charles Dickens
