Dim Quotes
346 quotes by 277 authors
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She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing…
— Sarah Dunn
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I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking…
— Christopher Fowler
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I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of…
— Charles Dickens
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Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems…
— John Dewey
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I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness…
— Francine Prose
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Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us,…
— Aldo Leopold
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I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing…
— Kathryn Stockett
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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
— Joseph Conrad
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The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them…
— William Goldman
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Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope…
— Christina Rossetti
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It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.
— Haruki Murakami
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There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the…
— Anthony Burgess
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For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give…
— Mari Mancusi
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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
— Dorothy Parker
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Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Who Wrote These Dim Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 346 Dim Quotes, led by these top contributors: