Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

...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

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...

Terence McKenna

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

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.

Robert Jordan

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.

Robyn Hitchcock

Let there be more darkness

Robert E. Howard

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...

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.

Rumi

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Simon Bolivar

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Suzy Kassem

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Spike Milligan

God made nightButMan made darkness.

Robert Boyle

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

Victor Hugo

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

Victor Hugo

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Victor Hugo

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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.

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.

V. S. Naipaul

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

T. D. Jakes

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

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?]

Steve Kazee

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Wassily Kandinsky

Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided...

Wynonna Judd

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.