Dark Room Quotes

Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

Aftab Alam

Hope, Dark, Light

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Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

H. L. Mencken

Dark, Rooms, Lovers

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When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

Leonard Ravenhill

Dark, Light, Sitting

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If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light

Paramahansa Yogananda

Dark, Light, Trying

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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Gary Busey

Dark, Devil, Rooms

"I'm with Busey". www.imdb.com. (2003 - ).

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An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

Eric Cantona

Dark, Artist, Light

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My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.

Beetlejuice

Dark, Rooms, Life Is

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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Confucius

Cat, Dark, Black

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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Cat, Science

Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

Joan Ryan

Dark, Thinking, Rooms

Joan Ryan (2009). “The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Lawrence Block

Lying, Writing, Dark

Lawrence Block (1985). “Writing the Novel from Plot to Print”, Writers Digest Books

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God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

Albert Einstein

God, Play, Gambling

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If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

Kendrick Lamar

Rap, Flower, Dark

Song: Poetic Justice, 2012

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Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.

Antony Sher

Reading, Dark, Reflection

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But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Dream, Wall, Dark

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “Carmilla”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

David A. Bednar

Dark, Light, Receiving

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When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Bible, Christian, Book

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.476

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Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

Esi Edugyan

Dark, Thinking, Years

Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Taken, Dark

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An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

Eric Cantona

Soccer, Eye, Dark

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If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Dark, Artist, Light

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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

Ted Solotaroff

Writing, Dark, Mind

Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

Horatio Nelson

Love, Dark, Feelings

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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fear, Believe, Writing

Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Vernon Howard

Mistake, Creativity, Dark

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