Darkness Quotes - page 9

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. (Jean Paul)
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. View quote
Stefan Zweig
The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers. View quote
Winston Churchill
Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me. View quote
Ben Gibbard
I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album. View quote
Ben Gibbard
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin? View quote
John Keats
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet. View quote
John Keats
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. View quote
Joseph Conrad
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. View quote
Franz Kafka
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. (C. S. Lewis)
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. View quote
Laozi
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness? View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I rhyme To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. View quote
Seamus Heaney
America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people. View quote
Gerald Ford
The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end. View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe
The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. View quote
Colum McCann
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. View quote
Mark Haddon
Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart. (Markus Zusak)
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. View quote
Markus Zusak
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. View quote
Martin McDonagh
It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff. View quote
Meg Cabot
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. View quote
Mary Balogh