Darkness Quotes - Page 32

• Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

  Cat Stevens

  Prayer, Recovery, Mean

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• They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

  Karen Maitland

  Blessed, Men, Waiting

  Karen Maitland (2011). “The Gallows Curse”, p.126, Penguin UK

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• To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

  Yann Martel

  Creating, Long, Doubt

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.

  Mark Halperin

  Letting Go, Pride, Trying

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• Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, Blind, Annoyance

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fire, Ice, Heaven

  "The Divine Comedy".

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• Darkness is so predictable.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Predictable

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

  P. C. Cast

  Frodo

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• It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Taken, Cookies

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Fall, Passion

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• The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

  P. C. Cast

  Fire, Light, Sight

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• You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

  Dean Young

  Moving, Life Is Hard, Sometimes

  Dean Young (2002). “Skid”, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• A window within the soul to see Light and Magick I send with thee Be strong, be brave, make the right choice Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice Know that I am watching from above And that always, always, the answer is love!

  P. C. Cast

  Strong, Light, Voice

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.279, Macmillan

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• The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

  James Martineau

  Life, Truth, Sleep

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• But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Eye, Men

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look--and remembered to open your eyes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hurt, Eye, Sight

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• There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

  Rick Yancey

  Light, Might, Labor

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.

  Surya Das

  Light, Doubt, Sound

  Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

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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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• He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Eye, Mouths

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.649, Simon and Schuster

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• Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

  Helen Keller

  Uplifting, Morning, Heart

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.141, Book Tree

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• Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Flower, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.

  Obert Skye

  Opposites, Frustrated, Levels

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• Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Tunnels, Names

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• ...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moving, Sun, Passing

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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