Darkness Quotes - Page 31

• To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Doors, Meditation

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• I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Islands, Fame

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.146, A&C Black

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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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• ‎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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• Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Children, Moving

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• You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Moving, Sleep, Past

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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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• The whole existence is surrounded by a divine energy that protects you, cares for you, is always available. If you go on missing it, it is only because of you. If you keep your doors closed, the sun may be outside but you will live in darkness. Even if the doors are open and the sun is there, you can keep your eyes closed and you will still live in darkness. So is the case with god: his love is always there but our hearts are not open, our hearts are closed.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Heart, Love Is

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• ... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Daughter, Dark, Light

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• Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light

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• Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Army, Daggers

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• Darkness bound them closer than light.

  Orson Scott Card

  Light, Bounds

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.272, Macmillan

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• Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa

  J.R. Ward

  Light, Take Me, Light Of My Life

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• The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full of fears. And you will go on creating new fears - there is no end to it. You will live in fear, you will die in fear, and you will never be able to taste something of freedom. And it was all the time your potential; any moment you could have claimed it, but you never claimed it.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Discovery, Creating

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• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Land, Astrology, Worry

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• All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which will be taken away by the time of death, or even perhaps before. You may be very much attached to money but you can go bankrupt tomorrow. You may be very much attached to your power and position, your presidency, your prime ministership, but they are like soap bubbles. Today they are here, tomorrow not even a trace will be left.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Ignorance, Attachment

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• Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

  Neal Shusterman

  Blind, Impression, Knows

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Mean, Paradise, Ifs

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.385, Random House

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• One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

  Franz Kafka

  Biblical, Green, Dove

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, People, Evil

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Thinking, Skulls, Brain

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• Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Memories, Flower

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• There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.

  Jim Butcher

  Wall, Night, Light

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin

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• I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

  Shelagh Delaney

  House, Not Afraid, Darkness Inside

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• I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wall, Men, Light

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.817, Bantam

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