Quotes About Dimmed

I was stupefied. Had she once been a star and her bright burning had dimmed? Maybe because she had us? Or had Mama

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.

The ugly wrangle over the testament must have dimmed the satisfaction that Stalin derived from his political triumph at this time over the united opposition.

The lights have been dimmed and the window is awash in the blackness and he can see a hairline fracture of dawn against the horizon.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

This morning I prepared the bridal bed. How fresh the sheets smelt, The pillows were plump with anticipation, Like me. We've covered every angle, the mistress and me. I am to smother myself in her sweet perfume And let down my hair – although the colour does not compare. But he will not notice: The lights will be dimmed and the King will be blinded with love.

Their hunger dimmed, an ominous sign. They had reached the last stage of starvation.

And Master Nathaniel's pleached alley was growing yellower and yellower, and on the days when a thick white mist came rolling up from the Dapple it would be the only object in his garden that was not blurred and dimmed, and would look like a pair of gigantic golden compasses with which a demiurge is measuring chaos.

when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.

You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.