Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Hughes

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

V. S. Naipaul

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

Sophocles

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

Stephen King

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

Simon Bolivar

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Suzy Kassem

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears YOU.

Robert Boyle

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Toby Jones

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Sylvia Plath

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

Rumi

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

Tom Baker

I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

Stephen Crane

Let me into the darkness again.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Spike Milligan

God made nightButMan made darkness.

T. D. Jakes

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

Joss Whedon

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

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

Umberto Eco

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

Rick Riordan

Menshikov wants to see the old gold swallowed by Apophis. He wants to see the world plunged into darkness and chaos. He is quite insane. "Oh." [great response, I know. But what do you say to a story like that?]

P. C. Cast

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

P. C. Cast

Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

Paul McCartney

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Mary Pope Osborne

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Victor Hugo

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Victor Hugo

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.