Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Gerard Hopkins

That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

Ben Okri

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Vin Diesel

This woman comes from the darkness into the spotlight and says, 'Get down here right this minute!'

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Elizabeth Strout

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

Bruce Cockburn

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Edgar Allan Poe

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyrean.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.

Even a small star shines in the darkness

Belgrade is now in darkness for as far as the eye can see.

Ovid

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

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night

Cindy Sheehan

This war is immoral, it will end. The darkness will never overcome the light.

Anish Kapoor

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

Anish Kapoor

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Andrew McMahon

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

Anthony Hopkins

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

Alberto Manguel

Darkness promotes speech.

Ali Hewson

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Albert Einstein

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

Alexander Pope

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

Andrew Solomon

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.