Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Victor Hugo

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Victor Hugo

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

V. S. Naipaul

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

Sophocles

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

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.

Rumi

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

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.

Stephen Crane

Let me into the darkness again.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Spike Milligan

God made nightButMan made darkness.

Rajneesh

Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

John Owen

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

Neil Gaiman

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

Marie Lu

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

Marilynne Robinson

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

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.

Nikolai Berdyaev

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

John Woolman

To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

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.

Frances Wright

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

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.