Darkness Quotes - Page 34

• The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.

  Steve Winwood

  Dream, Spiritual, Stars

  Song: Reach for the Light

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• ...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

  e. e. cummings

  Soulmate, Stars, Moon

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• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Men, Creation Of Man

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109

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• False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Horizon, Entering

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.148

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• 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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• 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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• Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

  Sarah McLachlan

  Night, Light, Endless

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• Unremembered and afar
  I watched as I watched a star,
  Through darkness struggling into view
  And I loved you better than you knew.

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Sexy, Stars, Struggle

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• No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Fighting, Light

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• A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Faith, Stars

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• In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Islamic

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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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• It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.

  Black Elk

  Eye, Men, Humanity

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• Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

  Ivan Bunin

  Writing, Deeds, Oblivion

  Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Gleb Struve, Heidi Hillis (1994). “The Life of Arseniev: Youth”, p.6, Northwestern University Press

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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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• Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

  Hillary Carlip

  Writing, Light, Shining

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• When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Writing

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• In this world we've created
  Where this place that we live
  in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in
  Love lights the world
  Unites the love that's for eternity.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Music, Eye, Light

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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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• In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Lying, Journey

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• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Stars, Kings, Hate

  "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

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• The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as his relationship to God who is his spiritual father. If man will recognize his divine origin, he will then realize his Heavenly Father will not leave him alone to grope in darkness of mind and spirit, but will make available a power to influence him in right paths and into standards of good behavior. The Holy Ghost is that power.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Spiritual, Father, Men

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• It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.

  Maurice Strong

  Attitude, Responsibility, Light

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• Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in....I love you

  Steven Strait

  Sweet, Love You, Love Is

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