Dim Quotes

346 quotes by 277 authors

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today. — Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage. — Audrey Niffenegger
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden… — William Butler Yeats
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have… — Rabindranath Tagore
And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that… — John Wyndham
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and… — James Joyce
Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup… — Teresa Medeiros
I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned. — Lilith Saintcrow
It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared."… — Cassandra Clare
Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted… — William Golding
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark,… — Yukio Mishima
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me… — Lord Byron
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a… — Jeffrey Eugenides
In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't see his face,… — Stephenie Meyer
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our… — Kevin Williamson
Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the… — Suzanne Collins
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all… — Susanna Clarke

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