Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Owen

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

Neil Gaiman

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

Nikolai Berdyaev

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

John Woolman

To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

Marilynne Robinson

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

Pablo Neruda

I was the owner of my own darkness.

Paula Cole

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

Marie Lu

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

Edie Falco

I'm seeing darkness at the end of the tunnel. I'm not really looking forward to being unemployed again.

Neal Shusterman

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

John Adams

My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

Ovid

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

the true shadow is not made by darkness but of light.

Sophocles

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

Sylvia Plath

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

Stephen King

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

Stephenie Meyer

Darkness is so predictable.

Thomas Hobbes

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

Will Durant

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

Vance Havner

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

Ray Winstone

The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.

Roseanne Barr

There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.

Voltaire

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

Virginia Woolf

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

Virginia Woolf

How can I express the darkness?

Samuel Beckett

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.