Darkness Quotes

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  • A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.

    Memories   Book   Reading  
    Source: yositeru.blogspot.com
  • The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

  • We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

  • It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

    Fall   Mean   Darkness  
  • Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

  • When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

    Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.26, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS
  • Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.

  • l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

    Wise   Time   Heart  
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.94, Library of America
  • True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

    Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation
  • The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

    Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.262, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

    Poetry   Darkness   Rhyme  
    Seamus Heaney (2014). “Poems, 1965-1975”, p.40, Macmillan
  • What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn

    Song: Amen Omen, Album: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003
  • Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

  • -no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.

    Girl   Dream   Spiritual  
    Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.36, Grove Press
  • I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.

    Hate   Doors   Darkness  
    Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

    Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.4, RH Childrens Books
  • My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

    Heart   People   Darkness  
    Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.221, Penguin
  • How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.

    Rain   Doors   Rivers  
    Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”
  • We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

    FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jan 06, 2014
  • Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.

    Blessed   Ideas   Waiting  
    Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan
  • Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we cling to the sounds we hear. As a consequence, we make ourselves inseparable from all things, yet we are not like some shadowy figure 'lodging' in a mirror or like the moon in water. Whenever we witness what is on the one side, its opposite side will be in darkness.

    Buddhist   Moon   Mirrors  
  • We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

    Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.
  • A beam in darkness: let it grow.

    Darkness   Beam   Grows  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.40, Broadview Press
  • Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

  • He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.

    Heart   Doors   Long  
  • You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

    Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”
  • For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory

    Names   Heaven   Darkness  
  • There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

    Light   Joy   Darkness  
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  • We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

    Fear   Passion   Dark  
  • After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

    Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell
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