Flickering Quotes

87 quotes by 78 authors

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined… — Henry Ward Beecher
Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. — John Boorman
LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why… — Wallace Stevens
The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say;… — Charles Reznikoff
People think I am dead because they havenâ€™t seen me around for awhile. Iâ€™m not dead, Iâ€™m very much alive, as you can see. Although,… — Red Skelton
New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them… — Melissa Febos
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer… — Gautama Buddha
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind… — Ralph Marston
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals,… — Ronald Reagan
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which… — Mark Epstein
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we… — Barry Hughart
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task… — Hector Hugh Munro
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in… — Edith Schaeffer
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in… — Ben Lerner
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human… — Richard Preston
Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some… — Lewis B. Smedes
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
I have a writerâ€™s concentration: intense, but flickering. — Donald McCaig

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