Darkness Quotes - Page 36

• What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Music, Night, Purpose

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Intelligence, World

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.

  P. M. H. Atwater

  Light, People, Dying

  P. M. H. Atwater (2004). “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death”, p.88, ARE Press

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• I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

  Albert Einstein

  Should

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.448, Princeton University Press

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• Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Simple, Reality

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• Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Men, Light

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• Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Rewards, Looks, Intriguing

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• When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

  Philip Ridley

  Believe, Ignorance, Devil

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• For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Beautiful, Very Beautiful

  "Riccardo Tisci: Designer of the Year 2012" by Molly Young, www.gq.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

  Larry Heinemann

  Home, Heart, Dark

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• I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Lying, Communication

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• You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

  Bebo Norman

  Beautiful, Light, Two

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• Fear cannot touch me…
  It can only taunt me,
  It cannot take me,
  Just tell me where to go…
  I can either follow,
  Or stay in my bed…
  I can hold on
  To the things that I know…
  The dead stay dead,
  They cannot walk.
  The shadows are darkness.
  And darkness cannot talk

  Christopher Rice

  Fear, Shadow, Bed

  Christopher Rice (2001). “A Density of Souls”, Miramax

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• Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

  David Archuleta

  Light, Appreciate

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• If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Dark, Personality, Sides

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• We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.

  Debbie Ford

  Fighting, Compassion, Order

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• Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.

  America Ferrera

  Real, Kids, Dark

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• Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday,
  And tell the world that everything's okay,
  But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
  Till things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Rainbow, Black

  "CASH: Die Autobiografie von Johnny Cash".

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• I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.

  Ted Haggard

  Healing, Secret, Facts

  Ted Haggard (2002). “Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The darkness is coming now god dammit!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

  Richard Roxburgh

  Character, Facts, Needs

  "The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh". Interview, www.horror.com. May, 2003.

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• My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Hero, Light, Hardworking

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.

  Volkmar Wentzel

  Fall, Night, Light

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• There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord.

  Robert D. Hales

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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