Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

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.

Frances Wright

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

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.

George Eliot

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

George W. Bush

To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'

George Orwell

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

George Orwell

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Frederick Buechner

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

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

Gerard Hopkins

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

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.

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.

Janet Fitch

Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

Cassandra Clare

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

Graham Parker

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth...

Hugh Howey

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

Emma Forrest

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

J. C. Ryle

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

Madeleine L'Engle

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

P. C. Cast

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.