Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Edith Wharton

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

William Shakespeare

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

Carl Jung

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

Carl Jung

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Carl Jung

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

Charles Dickens

Are there no prisons?

Alan Moore

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Chaka Khan

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are worse prisons than words.

Edward Flynn

It's a strange thing to say, but it made me feel proud of the neighborhood I live in -- even though my neighborhood is in prison right now.

Charles Colson

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Aung San Suu Kyi

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Antonio Porchia

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

Bill Baxter

These mines were the original lottery. You dig, you get nothing. You dig, you get nothing. But the next shovel-full is going to be it.

Sophocles

A friend in word is never friend of mine.

Patricia Briggs

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

Jim Parks

My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Hillary Clinton

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

George Best

I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.

James Cook

I don't know how they could really make mines much safer than they are. What else can they really do.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.