Flicker Quotes

• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

  Rumi

  Fire, Worry, World

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 28), 1997.

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Loneliness, Thinking, Yesterday

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Life is beautiful and living is pain.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Pain, Life Is

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.

  Esther Hicks

  Problem, Awareness, Solutions

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• Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ice, Life Is

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Rain of the Absolute," p. 25, 1999.

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• The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Passion, Light

  Thomas Merton (2009). “A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Heart, Optimism

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• the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

  Estela Portillo Trambley

  Past, Long, Happened

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• But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Clouds, Lightning

  "Heart of Darkness and Other Stories".

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• I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

  Paullina Simons

  Stupidity, Moments, Eternity

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• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Dream

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.41

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• So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Fall, Ready

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• It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Dying, Dread, Happenings

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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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• Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• Today is tomorrow, and present is past.
  Nothing exists and everything will last.
  There is no beginning, there was no end.
  No depth to fall, no height to ascend.
  There is only this moment, this flicker of light
  That illuminates nothing, but oh! So bright!
  For we are the spark that flutters in space,
  Consuming an eternity of a moment’s grace.
  For today is tomorrow and present and past.
  Nothing exists and everything will last.

  Jane Roberts

  Fall, Past, Light

  Jane Roberts (2012). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume One: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.571, Amber-Allen Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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