Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Edith Wharton

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Antony Gormley

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Antony Sher

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Dean Koontz

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

William Shakespeare

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

William Shakespeare

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Billie Joe Armstrong

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

Bruce Cockburn

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Edgar Allan Poe

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Eddie Vedder

Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.

Let everyone fall at the feet of the True Guru, He has dispelled the darkness of emotional attachment.

The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyrean.

Elizabeth Strout

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.

Elias Canetti

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960

Knowledge removes the darkness of ignorance and thus helps even the most ignorant man to become knowledgeable.

Joy Page

For what is it to be blind, but to find safety in the darkness and to become the spouse of habit whose name is ignorance?

For most darkness is when dreams are made; but for the wise so to when there is light.

Seiji Maehara

I think this is an issue that is shrouded in darkness. I would like to pursue this issue thoroughly.

D. H. Lawrence

Man's ultimate love for man? Yes, yes, but only in the separate darkness of man's love for the present, unknowable God.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Thomas Campbell

Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!

It has shone upon thee, light has arisen, darkness has departed from thee. We remove from thee death, destruction, and disease.

Stewart Copeland

But darkness makes me fumble For a key to a door Wide open

Charles Manson

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

Charles Hodge

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded