See Through Glass Quotes

#1. Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

Lewis Carroll

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

Ingmar Bergman

#3. I climb through the rubble toward the door. It takes a long time, time enough for a Giant to see me from the blood-red stained-glass eye window and reach out to crush me in his hand the size of a tractor.

Francesca Lia Block

#4. 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

#5. After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other.

J.D. Robb

#6. I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that ... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.

Dean Koontz

#8. I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.

Iggy Pop

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

Margaret Atwood

#10. We lived together like fish in an aquarium, contented because someone threw us food when we needed it, and we could, whenever we wanted to, see the world outside through the glass.

Paulo Coelho

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she felt so easy and careless that she was surprised to see that the glass of champagne beside her plate was untouched. She felt as if all its sparkles were whirling through her.

Edith Wharton

#14. Looking through the ruby glass one cannot see the true colour of the sky.

Lara Biyuts

#15. My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change ...

Elizabeth Dole

#16. I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.
- Ellen West

Carl R. Rogers

#17. The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

James Clerk Maxwell

#18. 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

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

Stephen King

#20. I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in the way. Language is a window, and if the window is clean, you shouldn't be aware you're looking through glass.

Jennifer Haigh

#21. Ah, gentle drivers gliding through summer's black nights, what frolics, what twists of lust, you might see from your impeccable highways if Kumfy Kabins were suddenly drained of their pigments and became as transparent as boxes of glass!

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion.
A thick round wall of glass.

John Fowles

#23. Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner being visited by a longed-for loved one.

Jeanette Winterson

#24. Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#25. Alys Van Eck waddled along beside him. Her blindfold had been removed, and through his long glass, Matthias could see her lips moving. Sweet Djel, is she still singing? Judging from the sour expression on Kaz's face, it was a distinct possibility.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#27. Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn't get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the encounter with its three-dimensionality.

Ben Lerner

#28. Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way
you can see where you came from but can't go back.

Meg Medina

#29. 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

#30. you can only know God through an open mind just as you can only see the sky through a clear window. You will not see the sky if you have covered the glass with blue paint. But

Alan W. Watts

#31. I watch them through the glass: specimens. Flies. I watch them. And I know. In ways normal men cannot: I know. I see thing: beyond things. I see the strands of fate that bind us: victims to victor. So let them scream; let them shout my name. My ears hear nothing but the weaving of the web.

J.M. DeMatteis

#32. 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

#33. Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

Merle Haggard

#34. When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle.

Gail Davis

#35. (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

#36. 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

#37. If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we'd never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.

Richard E. Gropp

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

Frederick Lenz

#39. 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

#40. Saint Paul was all too right about that dark glass. We look through it all our days and see nothing but our own reflections.

Stephen King

#41. My heart was glass
easy to see through, simple to break.

Amanda Sun

#42. 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

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

George Arnold

#44. As the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all things in their right series and procession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#45. Cancer is a tremendous opportunity to have your face pressed right up against the glass of your mortality. But what patients see through the glass is not a world outside cancer, but a world taken over by it - cancer reflected endlessly around them like a hall of mirrors.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#46. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.

Jaycee Dugard

#47. She couldn't see him, but his voice was like light through a stained-glass window in a cathedral.

Graham Joyce

#48. I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.

R. K. Laxman

#49. The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

Tom Shales