Dim Quotes
346 quotes by 277 authors
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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting…
— Matthew J. Kirby
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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind…
— James Joyce
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I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.
— Nelson DeMille
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There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so obvious…
— Lauren Kate
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Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in…
— Robert Browning
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You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase…
— Tobias Wolff
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay…
— William Shakespeare
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In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other.…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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...Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He wasn't really hard…
— David Eddings
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It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof…
— Sara Teasdale
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Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know…
— Virginia Woolf
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Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
— Joan D. Chittister
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...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Some of the memories were not clear---dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face...…
— Stephenie Meyer
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In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the…
— Sarah Dessen
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…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your ownâ€; and it struck me, as my automaton…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze…
— Don DeLillo
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