Glimpse Quotes

457 quotes by 375 authors

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so… — Mahatma Gandhi
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… — C.S. Lewis
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of… — C.S. Lewis
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas?… — Alexander Shulgin
We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even… — Banana Yoshimoto
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. — Marilynne Robinson
Youâ€™ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only… — Mark Helprin
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,… — Leo Tolstoy
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was… — Garth Stein
He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. — Steve Toltz
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never… — Toni Morrison
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth,… — Karen Armstrong
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. — Julia Quinn
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a… — Nicholas Sparks
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They… — Katherine Dunn
The library smells like old books â€” a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb

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