Dim Quotes

346 quotes by 277 authors

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say… — Marcel Proust
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can… — Margaret Atwood
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim… — Ilona Andrews
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded… — Harold Brodkey
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by… — Graham Greene
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… — Alice Munro
If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val — Orson Scott Card
This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with,… — William Blake
And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted… — William Goldman
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped… — Kelley Armstrong
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared… — Laurie R. King
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… — Charles Baudelaire
But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading… — Jack London
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and… — William Butler Yeats

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