Darkness Quotes - Page 31

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

We're all dancing in the darkness.

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant the very opposite ... and then you were face to face, in total darkness, with the knowledge that you didn’t know who you were. And how could anyone else be blamed for that?

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

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.

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

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.'