Quotes about darkness
darkness trifles heart-of-darkness
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. Joseph Conrad
darkness fascination abomination
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.
darkness stories pieces
Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it. Laurell K. Hamilton
darkness knows
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from. Lasse Hallstrom
darkness needs actors
Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth. M. Night Shyamalan
darkness violence prove
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness Mahatma Gandhi
darkness lamps
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
darkness midst
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
darkness sun moments
It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that. Kami Garcia
darkness who-we-are forget
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human. Julie Taymor
darkness vision height
We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision. Paul Tillich
darkness get-better bullets
Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger. Patrick Stump
darkness sometimes invisible
In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there. Maggie Stiefvater
darkness goes-on looks
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness... Haruki Murakami
darkness world flow
The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.
darkness life-is alchemy
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. Marilynne Robinson
darkness doubt doe
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power. Joseph Smith, Jr.
darkness want holding-on
There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness. Lauren Oliver
darkness complaining needs
Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles! Mark Batterson
darkness reign obsolete
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
darkness determined window
Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not. Jodi Picoult
darkness world
The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world. Margaret Atwood
darkness sides velvet
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground. Martin Gore
darkness actors draws
Some actors can draw from their own darkness. Mary Harron
darkness bitterness affliction
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. John Owen
darkness mountain forests
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... Terry Pratchett
darkness horror trouble
He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine...
darkness wit straws
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness... Robert E. Howard
darkness sunrise quiet
The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise. Voltaire
darkness black tears
Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad. Virginia Woolf
darkness sun reason
I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets. Will Durant
darkness flip
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. Wynonna Judd