Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antony Sher

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Carl Jung

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

Carl Jung

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Carl Jung

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

J. C. Ryle

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

Edie Falco

I'm seeing darkness at the end of the tunnel. I'm not really looking forward to being unemployed again.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.

Even a small star shines in the darkness

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Ovid

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Cindy Sheehan

This war is immoral, it will end. The darkness will never overcome the light.

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Tony McCoy

Darkness' jumping was probably worse when he was going right-handed at Sandown last time, he just didn't enjoy it.

Shaun Cassidy

Darkness and light, it's all about the balance.

Gerard Hopkins

That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

Belgrade is now in darkness for as far as the eye can see.

James A. Garfield

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

James A. Baldwin

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Emma Forrest

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.