Flickering Quotes

87 quotes by 78 authors

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my… — Banana Yoshimoto
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can… — Margaret Atwood
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
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. — Malcolm Gladwell
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
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green… — Alice Sebold
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently… — Diane Duane
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. — Albert Einstein
Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead — Maggie Stiefvater
My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind — Tana French
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. — Jimmy Buffett
She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering… — Henry Rollins
I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle… — Pittacus Lore
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering — Cassandra Clare
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one… — Dante Alighieri
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too… — Elizabeth Gaskell
What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered,… — Cassandra Clare

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