#glimpse

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#face #find #forced #glimpse #going

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. ↗

— Patricia MacLachlan

#poetry #words #love

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#busy #clock #coming #down #get

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment? ↗

— Tom Cruise

#embarrassment #ever #feeling #glimpse #gotten

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine. ↗

— Len Wein

#caught #first #glimpse #got #hugh

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#darkness #edge #glimpse #good #good book

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away. ↗

— George Harrison

#away #behind #between #far #glimpse

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#capable #dignity #eternity #glimpse #important

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cause #doubting #even #glimpse #laid