Quotes About Flicker

People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.

The fire dies, the candle is eaten by its weak fluttering flame.

Dogs watch more TV now than they did before because of flat screen televisions which flicker at a rate that a dog's eyes are actually able to process.

with their blue flickering flames.

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Like a candle in the wind, she was, at one minute bright, even brilliant, in her thoughts; in the next moment, her intelligence flickered dimly, illuminating nothing except her own pathetic decline.

I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink.

Father carefully built the piles of kindling and put the bigger logs on top, then started the fire with a coal brought from the kitchen. So small, at first — a flicker, a tendril of yellow, a fugitive lick of untamed gold — and then a fire, and then a blaze, and then, as more logs were added, a true inferno.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

The blind cosmos grinds aimlessly on from nothing to something and from something back to nothing again, neither heeding nor knowing the wishes or existence of the minds that flicker for a second now and then in the darkness.

Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire. God's love for you does not—will not—end.

sputtering light

Little poppies, little hell flames, Do you do no harm? You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.

You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns-

I am no prophet—and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

I?" the man said. "I am a drifter. A miscreant. The flame's last breath, made of smoke at its passing.

Flamme — l'âme s'effile comme une lame.

Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.

Even when he stands still, he moves. Baxter flickers everywhere and nowhere. A blink in a shuddering train window.

Thanks to the priceless stars That flicker one by one My burnt-out eyes can see Dim memories of the sun. Hopelessly I have sought To touch the end of all; Beneath some melting heat I feel my pinions fall.

So the avenues we walk down, full of bodies wearing faces, are full of hidden talent: enough to make pianos moan, sidewalks split, streetlights deliriously flicker.

Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou