Dim Quotes

346 quotes by 284 authors

No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do… — Leonard Sweet
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they… — Ernst Gombrich
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. — James Russell Lowell
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.… — Mark Twain
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes… — Edwin Arnold
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And… — John Milton
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at… — Emily Dickinson
A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear. — Emily Dickinson
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all… — A. E. Coppard
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead… — Rachel Carson
We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good… — John Muir
During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain. — Fedor Emelianenko
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on… — Edward Abbey
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner… — Norman Douglas
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. — William James

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