Dimly Quotes

74 quotes by 65 authors

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost… — Bertrand Russell
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the… — Emily Bronte
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond wordsâ€¦By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly -… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that… — Diana Gabaldon
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer… — Hermann Hesse
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny… — Mark Twain
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each… — Algernon Blackwood
More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There… — Cinda Williams Chima
Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit… — Adam Rex
We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely… — Daphne du Maurier
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
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,â€”the light which, showing the way, forbids it. — Kate Chopin
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one — Voltaire
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can… — Francine Prose
There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him… — Diana Gabaldon
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is… — Alan Watts

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