290 Quotes About Imagery

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

I'm too tired to fight him off. Instead, I let him enfold me in a beguilingly soft, dark blanket of misery, and cry and cry and cry until my head is heavy and my throat is sore and my eyes swell so that the city lights blur and merge into a beautiful, chaotic mess.

The photographic image is a message without a code.

This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds, like her. An old claw-footed bathtub in a corner. So many holes everywhere that this place is simultaneously inside and outside.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.