Darkness Quotes - page 59

Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem "Darkness": I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless; and the icy Earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went - and came, and brought no day,... All earth was but one thought - and that was Death... (Bernard Lown)
Life is a pageant that passes very quickly, going hastily from one darkness to another darkness with only ignes fatui to guide; and there is no sense in it. I learned that, Kerin, without moiling over books. View quote
James Branch Cabell
Dark, dark The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. View quote
Sophocles
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. View quote
Sophocles
Behold, illumin'd by th' instructive age, That great phenomenon, a Sceptred Sage. There Stanislaus unfolds his prudent plan, Tears the strong bandage from the eyes of man, Points the progressive march, and shapes the way, That leads a realm from darkness into day. View quote
Joel Barlow
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
On the one side, the Mexican side, Mexican peasants are tantalized by the American possibility of change. On the other side, the American side, the tyranny of American optimism has driven Americans to neurosis and depression, when the dream is elusive or less meaningful than the myth promised. This constitutes the great irony of the Mexican-American border: American sadness has transformed the drug lords of Mexico into billionaires, even as the peasants of Mexico scramble through the darkness to find the American dream. View quote
Richard Rodriguez
Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way That leads from darkness to the perfect day! View quote
Richard Watson Gilder
My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body. And how will we perceive this body? And how operate on it? Not by the means we perceive extension, relation, color, form - the qualities of Space. ... No: but by the means we perceive duration and repetition and change: by Memory. View quote
John Crowley
Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call. (Ingmar Bergman)
You're very vulnerable when you're naked. The psychology is a bit weird. It's all in the eyes between the two people so you've got to be confident. You've really got to pretend you are enjoying it. I tended to have lots of conversations with lonely old men and to meet lots of nutters as well. I have incredible tolerance for darkness. I can take on board quite a lot of damaged people, but it takes its toll psychologically. View quote
Stella Vine
Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. View quote
Jean Paul
What is God? The telescope by which we hold converse with the stars, the microscope which unveils the secrets of nature, the crucible of the chemist, the knife of the anatomist, the reflective faculties of the philosopher, all the common instruments of science, avail not here. On the threshold of that impenetrable mystery, a voice arrests our steps. From out the clouds and darkness that are round about God's throne, the question comes, "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?" (Thomas Guthrie)
Mysteries, to most scientists, are meta-stable states of non-understanding, often like darkness before dawn. Like the morning dew, they evaporate away by the light of new knowledge, causing an euphoric eureka. View quote
Varadaraja V. Raman
Mexican kids were now speaking quite a bit of English. Even Ramón. But he was a changed kid. There was a darkness in his eyes like a horse that had just been beaten one too many times. View quote
Victor Villaseñor
Everything that ever happened to you, you experienced right within you. Light and darkness, pain and pleasure, agony and ecstasy-all of it happened within you. If someone touches your hand right now, you may think you are experiencing their hand, but the fact of the matter is you are only experiencing the sensations in your own hand. The whole experience is contained within. All human experience is one hundred percent self-created. View quote
Jaggi Vasudev
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. View quote
John Milton