Quiver Quotes

• The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Whole, Universe

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• Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Soul, Shields

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”, p.37

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• How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

  Robert Blair

  Stupid, Arrows, Guilt

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• The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Heart, Voice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Soul, Gone

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.311

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• Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

  Jim Elliot

  Children, Arrows, Devil

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• I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Color, Saws

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• We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always

  John Muir

  Memories, Views, Cells

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Great West Books

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• What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Time, Heart, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Dream, Eye, Sky

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• If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver

  Rick Riordan

  Kissing, Ifs

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• Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Endless Sea

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Stars, Flower, Moon

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• I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.

  Barry Manilow

  Feelings, Trying, Knees

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• I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Shields, Enough

  John Dryden (1759). “Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, etc”, p.14

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Wall, Flower

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.20, Routledge

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• As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strings

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• I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Heart, Blood

  "Moab Is My Washpot". Book by Stephen Fry, 1997.

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• The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Twilight, Done, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868). “The Golden Legend”, p.182

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• Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

  Pat Conroy

  Dream, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Oct 15, 2013

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• My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

  Jim Carroll

  Voice, Arrows

  "Void of Course". Book by Jim Carroll, www.theguardian.com. October 1998.

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• While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

  Jules Verne

  Heart, Men, Long

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• Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Moving, Heart, Eye

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  Edward Young

  Blood, Knives, Tears

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.243

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• Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Terror

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.40, Vintage

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