Quake Quotes

• When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

  William James

  Children, Men, Thinking

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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• Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Aspens

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1843). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse; Together with Notes and a Glossary”, p.299

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• They love indeed who quake to say they love.

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Love Life

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 54

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• I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Writing, Night

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 25, 2014

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• My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Secret, Debt

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.20, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Matter, Get Away

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.10, Random House

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• What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Eye

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.100, Random House

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• The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fighting, Victory And Defeat, Imagination

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• It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Eye, Feelings

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.100, Random House

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• Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

  Beth Moore

  Believe, Belief, Unshakable

  Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.44, B&H Publishing Group

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• Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done." You will have a feeling of "I want what you want." Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Heart, Voice

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• So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

  Joseph Cook

  Believe, Moving, Healing

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• Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.

  Gaylene Preston

  Book, Opportunity, Problem

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• Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

  Stephen Russell

  Mean, People, Boots

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  Peter Gabriel

  Blow, Poetry, Noses

  Song: Steam, Album: Us, 1992

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• The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Night, Giving, President

  "Chile's earthquake was horrible - but it could have been so much worse" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2010.

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• Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms God here: almighty, imparting manifold gifts, Him Whom the holy choir hymns, Who brings life to those in heaven and on earth, and is enthroned on high, coming from the Father, the divine force, self-commandeered; He is not a Child (for there is one worthy Child of the One who is best), nor is He outside the unseen Godhead, but of identical honor.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Children, Father

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• Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, War, Believe

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Lakes

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Fire, Lovely

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• If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

  Tertullian

  Christian, Sky, Earth

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• If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Fear, What Matters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

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• The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Real, Moving, Hero

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin

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• As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.

  Brian Williams

  Fate, America, Decision

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• Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

  Francis of Assisi

  Son, Men, Heaven

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