Darkness Quotes - Page 25

• I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

  Mary Balogh

  Believe, Heart, Opposites

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.376, Dell

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• Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!

  Anne Bishop

  Mother, Night, May

  Anne Bishop (2000). “Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3”, p.206, Penguin

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• I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

  Charles Yu

  Confused, Fall, Climbing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.63, Vintage

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• You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Talking, Looks, Neon

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• Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Blessed, Ideas, Waiting

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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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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• Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Strong, Passion

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

  Steve Martin

  Lonely, Book, Heart

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• For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Self, Names

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• maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

  Mary Oliver

  Death, Light, Wrapping

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.108, Beacon Press

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• Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Destiny, Years

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.308, Bantam

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• I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.

  James Frey

  Memories, Color, Giving

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.179, Rutgers University Press

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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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• Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

  Margaret Stohl

  Courage, Doe

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• It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood

  Margaret Stohl

  Dark, Light, Too Much

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• You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

  Juliet Marillier

  Light, Pathways, Poison

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.471, Macmillan

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• When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Butterfly, Fluttering, Throat

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• Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fighting, Light, Despair

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• Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Men, Cities

  "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, February 11, 2003.

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• Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

  Martha Beck

  Healing, Artist, Redemption

  Martha Beck (2012). “Finding Your Way In A Wild New World: Four steps to fulfilling your true calling”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Sweet, Children

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.210, Bantam

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• "Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record."

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Blood, Hair

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, 2007.

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• Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Swallowing, Stories, Pieces

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• Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

  Lauren Oliver

  Breathing, Two, Space

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• Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Beautiful Creatures, Lost

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