Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

with sunshine there would be a lifting of the darkness.

Ovid

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

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.

Coventry Patmore

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

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.

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.

Cindy Sheehan

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

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

They float upon the surface of the darkness in which I'm drowning.

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gerard Hopkins

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

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.

Cassandra Clare

Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness...

George Eliot

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.