Quotes About Glimpse

I am a camera with its shutter open

Have we? Have we lost our light, or have we perhaps just glimpsed it for the first time?

You were rational. I used to think you the most reasonable of the brothers. You were rational until you had a glimpse of the truth—very simple, but distorting your assumptions, blowing them up from the inside.

he glimpsed, briefly, the distant bridge which glowed like something written in the sky.

Feia vent, i de tant en tant les fulles deixaven a la vista una estrella, i semblava que les estrelles mateixes s'estremissin i projectessin la seva llum per mirar d'esquitllar-se per entre les vores de les fulles.

Her intense and pure religiousness took the form of her having equal faith in the existence of another world and in the impossibility of comprehending it in terms of earthly life. All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and the chimeras, something real ahead, just as persons endowed with an unusual persistence of diurnal cerebration are able to perceive in their deepest sleep, somewhere beyond the throes of an entangled and inept nightmare, the ordered reality of the waking hour.

Michal too would catch one last glimpse of him in a dream. In 1958 she told a friend: I dreamt of Charles the other night. He was standing on a niche in a cathedral I could not identify. His garments were beyond whiteness & he looked very very grave & he looked & looked at me.1526

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Behold! Behold the black, ungrainèd flesh, The jaw's jeweled hinge that we can barely glimpse …

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

But even if merely designed to amuse his patrons, they hint at something deeper, providing a glimpse into the psychological torments swirling in the psyche of the artist playing the entertainer. 39

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?

This was a glimpse of the sister she loved, the sensitive treasurer, the careful watcher and keeper of all their lives... Wild Flowers (Book One of The Lives Trilogy)

He glimpsed her familiar face then, very clearly, vivid and flushed with passion. 'Don't do that,' he warned. 'Don't look like that.' 'Like what?' 'Don't feel. It's a stronger spell than the sorceress's.

Low gray cloud pressing down on the sheer gray city. A glimpse of new buildings, through the scaled-down limo's tinted, lace-curtained windows.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. On that day of the week and at

not desperate but lost, pathetic, fatalistic, like doomsday refugees, a glimpse of what the end of the world will look like:

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

time he only saw windows.

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

This, then, was what a glimpse of truth might be like; hard as stone, beautiful as stars, satisfying as bread.