Dim Quotes

346 quotes by 284 authors

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'… — Milan Kundera
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You… — George Edward Moore
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. — Antoine Rivarol
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the… — Roger Waters
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,… — Mark Twain
Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled… — Anne Rivers Siddons
The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for… — Garrison Keillor
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light… — William Butler Yeats
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was… — Cormac McCarthy
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a… — Marcus Aurelius
I had all the characteristics of a human beingâ€”flesh, blood, skin, hairâ€”but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the… — Erich Maria Remarque
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.… — Kevin Brockmeier
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture… — Kenneth Grahame
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf

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