Glass Darkly Quotes

#1. Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can do is to present it as "in a glass, darkly".

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#2. You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

#3. I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

Vincent Van Gogh

#4. we see now through a glass darkly" and

Stephen King

#5. As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.
If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.

Gregory Maguire

#8. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Anonymous

#9. L.P. So your work must fight religion?
J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly.

James Hillman

#10. In Heaven we'll understand why we've suffered on Earth. The Apostle Paul explained, For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known [of God] .

David Berg

#11. Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

William Mountford

#12. Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Margaret Atwood

#14. (As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

Jostein Gaarder

#15. Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit. Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

Donald Allen Kirch

#16. There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

Douglas Sirk

#17. We should not expect too much from faith," he said. "Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly.

Margaret Atwood

#18. I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.

Lauren Velez

#19. So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

Anne Rice

#20. Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles.

Joy-Ann Reid

#21. All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension . Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#22. The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#23. meaning of our life is the light we have brought into the world. The light we brought into life is eternal; it can never be made into darkness. We should help others to see the eternal light in their own lives. One

Maria Marshall

#24. So as through a glass, and darkly - The age long strife I see - Where I fought in many guises, - Many names, but always me.

George S. Patton

#25. If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won't work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh).

Dada Bhagwan

#26. In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

Emile M. Cioran

#27. It's so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

Ingmar Bergman

#28. Note well that investigative journalism springs mostly from two sources: whistleblowers' leaks and beat reporters' expertise.

Jeff Jarvis

#29. The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

George Arnold

#30. Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

Lafcadio Hearn

#31. The hot blue-glass eyes of the mannequins watched as the ladies drifted down the empty river bottom street, their images shimmering in the windows like blossoms seen under darkly moving waters.

Ray Bradbury

#32. A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.

Brendan Rodgers

#33. Dad chuckles darkly. "She can do as she pleases. There's no let to it.

Victoria Aveyard

#34. Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Pearl S. Buck

#35. How do you start you ask? You start by starting.

Rick Ward

#36. Arise without conditions, away from cause and effect, when the whole of existence is conditioned and relative, and is within the law of cause and effect?

Walpola Rahula