Darkness Quotes - Page 32

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.

You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

I love lying in darkness.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.

For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

It is time to give ourselves to the Master and allow Him to lead us into fruitful fields where we can enrich a world filled with darkness and misery. Each of us, no matter who we are, no matter where we serve, must arise and make the most of each opportunity that comes.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

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.