Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

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.

Rumi

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Toby Jones

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Victor Hugo

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

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.

Sylvia Plath

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

Tom Baker

I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Spike Milligan

God made nightButMan made darkness.

Marie Lu

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

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

John Piper

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.

Let everyone fall at the feet of the True Guru, He has dispelled the darkness of emotional attachment.

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960

For most darkness is when dreams are made; but for the wise so to when there is light.

James A. Garfield

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

George W. Bush

To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'

George Orwell

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Frederick Buechner

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

Frederick Buechner

We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.

Cassandra Clare

Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness...

George Eliot

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

May our friends be dear to us! May those who hate us, end up in darkness of ignorance!