Darkness Quotes - Page 24

• Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Children, Dark

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.119

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• 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

  Mountain, Forests, Certain

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Business, Children

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• When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Light, Sparks, Way

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Sunset, Night

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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• One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

  Takeda Nobushige

  War, Thinking, Study

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• The night has a thousand eyes.

  John Lyly

  Eye, Sunset, Night

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• Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.264

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• A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

  Marcel Proust

  Sleep, Insomnia, Light

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2717, Delphi Classics

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• I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Crush, Night

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sports, Dream, Believe

  Kristi Yamaguchi (1998). “Always Dream”, Taylor Pub

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• The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  John Milton

  Dark, Moon, Night

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86

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• I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I am lost in the darkness of a downcast heart. Dream or reality. Let it be decided tonight.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Heart, Reality

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• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• ‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

  Jim Butcher

  Fighting, Different, Enough

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.586, Penguin

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• How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

  John Milton

  Fall, Night, Wings

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

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• We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so much a single effort to render this transition understandable

  Herman Bavinck

  Fall, Light, Effort

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• When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.

  Edward Lear

  Night, Long, Silence

  'The Dong with a Luminous Nose' (1871)

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• The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Night, Blood, Dawn

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• If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

  Charles Hodge

  Atheism, Mystery, Sin

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.199

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• And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets in the aisles of grass With their clear fifing pierce the hush; And somewhere you many hear anear The passion of the hermit thrush.

  Clinton Scollard

  Stars, Twilight, Sunset

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• In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Keys, Prison, Should

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2007). “The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.75, Penguin

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• Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.

  Catherine Fisher

  Wise, Dream, Swans

  Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.205, Penguin

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• And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was. A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me. I crossed my arms tightly across my chest, my hands balling into fists. I was losing my mind.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crazy, Hands, Perfect

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• wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Eye, Swimming

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