Darkness Quotes - Page 26

• Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky.

  Frances Hardinge

  Fall, Dark, Sky

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• In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.

  Roger Zelazny

  Believe, Mirrors, Blood

  "The Guns of Avalon". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1972.

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• In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

  Isaac Asimov

  Light, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Being Thankful, Needs, Way

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• King Mickey- "Even in the Darkest of Darkness, there is always a Light".

  Shiro Amano

  Kings, Light, Mickey

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• All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Children, Believe

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• Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

  John Milton

  Men, Clay, Makers

  John Milton (1838). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.357

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• If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

  Rumi

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Skulls, Evil

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• Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Beautiful, Pain, Things In Life

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• Kingsley smiled his Cheshire smile. And without a word, he called up the white darkness - the subvertio - a spell that unlocked what could not be unlocked, that destroyed what could not be destroyed. There was a rumbling, a shaking, like the strongest earthquake, and the iron gate crumbled, and the path began to melt. the demon shrieked, but Kingsley just looked at Mimi the entire time. "Azrael...

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Earthquakes, Iron, White

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• I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

  e. e. cummings

  Eye, Air, Alive

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the beginning Marvel created the Bullpen and the Style. And the Bullpen was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the Artists. And the Spirit of Marvel said, Let there be The Fantasic Four. And there was The Fantasic Four. And Marvel saw The Fantasic Four. And it was good.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, Style, Four

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• It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Seems

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.247, Lulu.com

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• I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.

  Robin Sloan

  Ideas, Google, Earth

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.132, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.

  P. C. Cast

  Loneliness, Eye, Dark

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• At the very least i should fear you. some would say that I should hate you." "Many would say that." "Yet i neither fear nor hate you." "You-you are comforting me. Giving me sanctuary. Why, Grandma?" Aurox asked. "Because I believe in the power of love. I believe in chosing Light over Darkness-happiness over hatred-trust over skeptism.

  P. C. Cast

  Hate, Believe, Grandma

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• In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Order, Able, Bliss

  Francesca Lia Block (2012). “The Elementals”, p.139, St. Martin's Press

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• She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fate, Joy

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.611, Hamilton Books

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• He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

  P. C. Cast

  Light, Evil, Choices

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• In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

  Madeline Miller

  Love, Light, Hands

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• I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

  David Levithan

  Black, Today, Spheres

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.164, Egmont UK

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• Someone once said, 'That place is engulfed in darkness'- however that does in no way mean that there was never any light.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Mean, Light, Doe

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• Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.

  Cate Tiernan

  Light, Decision, Chance

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• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Echoes, Long

  "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)

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