Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Forrest

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

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...

Joseph Smith, Jr.

And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth...

Henry James

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

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.

Karen Armstrong

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Joyce Meyer

There’s nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth.

Martin Gore

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

Paula White

I say you have to remember in darkness what he told you in light. And the principle is this that there are times that it does feel like God is playing hide and go seek. But I trust him.

John Piper

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

Henri Nouwen

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

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.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

John Adams

My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

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

Khalil Gibran

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

Narendra Modi

Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.

the true shadow is not made by darkness but of light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Colour itself is a degree of darkness..

Terry Pratchett

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...

Terry Pratchett

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

Peter Gabriel

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

Joss Whedon

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

Simon Bolivar

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Suzy Kassem

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

Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me.