Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness.

William Manchester

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

Alberto Manguel

Darkness promotes speech.

Ali Hewson

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Albert Einstein

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

Abbas Kiarostami

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Adrienne Rich

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

May our friends be dear to us! May those who hate us, end up in darkness of ignorance!

Stewart Copeland

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

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960

Coventry Patmore

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Amanda Palmer

WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT’S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.

Dan Brown

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Andrew Solomon

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

Andrea Arnold

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Anne Michaels

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

Alexander Pope

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

Cornelia Funke

Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

Cormac McCarthy

I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

Colum McCann

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

David Levithan

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

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.

John Milton

Yet from those flames / No light, but rather darkness visible / Served only to discover sights of woe, / Regions of sorrow, doleful shades where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes / That comes to all.

Chuck Palahniuk

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.

with sunshine there would be a lifting of the darkness.

William Tyndale

To scatter Roman darkness by this lightThe loss of land and life I'll reckon slight.

William Tyndale

To scatter Roman darkness by this light The loss of land and life I'll reckon slight.

William Shakespeare

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

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