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.

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.

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.

Even a small star shines in the darkness

Ovid

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

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

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.

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.

Dan Brown

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Andrea Arnold

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Anne Michaels

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

Amanda Palmer

WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT’S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.

William Shakespeare

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

T. D. Jakes

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

Suzy Kassem

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears YOU.

Rumi

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Steve Kazee

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Robert Boyle

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

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.

Stephenie Meyer

Darkness is so predictable.

Thomas Hobbes

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

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_)

Victor Hugo

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.