Dark Quotes - Page 132

In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself - an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others

As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste.

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.