Flicker Quotes - Page 2

• In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Flames, Wind, Personality

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.85, Zondervan

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• I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Eye, People, Shining

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.104, Penguin

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• We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.

  Richard Rohr

  Self, Flames, Littles

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• Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures,
  even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that,
  when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.

  Pope Francis

  Light, Joy, Done

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.6, BookBaby

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• Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  New York, Moving, Bridges

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

  Rumi

  Song, Hurt, Sky

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Way Things Should”

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• I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Stars, Mean

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Eggs, Cooking

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.33, Anchor

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• Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

  Paul Simon

  People, Should, Journalist

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• Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hurt, Memories, Eye

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• Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.

  Neal Cassady

  Airplane, Light, Car

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• Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!

  Henry James

  Simple, Race, Poetry

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• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

  Leonard Sweet

  Religious, Sweet, Jesus

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• I wanted to tell stories that moved. Nothing stays the same, and that's why photography is important. The world flickers and changes, and that's why video is important.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Important, Video

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

  Feist

  Past, Years, Long

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Night, Fire

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• I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

  Olaf Stapledon (1975). “To the End of Time”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.
  [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna
  Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

  Ovid

  Dream, Morning, Lamps

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• ... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

  Adrienne Rich

  Growing Up, Real, Flames

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• Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Eye, Bloodshot Eyes

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.715, Scholastic Inc.

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• When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Flames, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4233, Delphi Classics

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• I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
  And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
  Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
  And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Work

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.

  John Berger

  Zoos, Animal, Opportunity

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh
  and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,
  water to sound, fire to form: life flickers
  uncounted into the supple arms of love.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Blood, Color, Fire

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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