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The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out. — Ivan Goncharov

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind — Tana French

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. — Jimmy Buffett

Mrs Moonsong sat in the tiny room lit only by flickering candlelight and a small beam of moonlight which slanted through the small roof window. — Helen Laycock

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering — Cassandra Clare

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi

Katniss, the girl on fire, has left behind her flickering flames and bejeweled gowns and soft candlelight frocks. She is as deadly as fire itself. — Suzanne Collins

And when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out — W.B.Yeats

Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around. — Suman Pokhrel

He put his fist against his chest. "Burn, Maddygirl," he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder. — Laura Kinsale

Where most people live, most of us, imagining it to be the real sunlit world when it is only a cave lit by the flickering fires of illusion. — E.L. Doctorow

I have a writer's concentration: intense, but flickering. — Donald McCaig

I collect flickering stars
in old pickling jars,
poking holes in the lids
so they can breathe. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Sam glanced at her, a hint of amusement shining in his eyes.
Celaena smiled at him, and the world, for one flickering heartbeat, felt right. — Sarah J. Maas

Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire. — Aeschylus

This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas? — R.D. Ronald

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. — John Boorman

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason. — Michael Thomas Ford

The flame is not out, but it is flickering. — Ken Burns

Life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever. — David Wong

He exuded wisdom-even the wisest ... were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights. — Aprilynne Pike

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. — Terry Eagleton

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. — Jim Butcher

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. — Albert Einstein

draperies, standing in a pool of flickering light with magic shattered — Frances Noyes Hart

As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light. — Fennel Hudson

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. — Denis Diderot

flickering lamps scattered here — Jean M. Auel

Memory is a fickle thing, a flickering light in a darkroom of possibilities. — Kent Nerburn

With the last of the sun flickering orange light across her face, she hitched up her long skirt and started the steep climb to the stone circle. — Valerie Biel

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other's reading to share a casual delight. — Keith Donohue

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles. — Mary Balogh

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. — Malcolm Gladwell