Darkness Quotes - Page 8

• If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

  Mother Teresa (2016). “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve”, p.106, Image

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• You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fear, Light, Providing

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 04, 2009

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• The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

  Terence McKenna

  Bigger, Bonfire

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• A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

  Nichiren

  Night, Reality, Mirrors

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• ... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

  Joseph Conrad

  Struggle, Choices, Loyal

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.592, e-artnow

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• EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Pain, Order, Light

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.125, Shambhala Publications

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• I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Ottla and the Family”, Schocken

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  I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Shadow, Casts

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• The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

  Joseph Conrad

  Peace, Mean, Racism

  Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

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• You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Moving, Light, Choices

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• You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Spiritual, Winning, Light

  "A Beacon in the Night". Interview with William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. December 19, 2008.

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• There is darkness in every heart.

  Shiro Amano

  Heart

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• Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

  John Milton

  Light, Order, Voice

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.94

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• There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

  Salman Rushdie

  Running, Doors, Outsiders

  "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I believe God has called His people to be a light in darkness.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Believe, Light, People

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• Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

  Phoebe Snow

  Priorities, Overwhelmed, Sometimes

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• A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.222, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• ...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Believe, Night

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• The darkness has it's own light.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light

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• We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

  Dave Eggers

  Strong, Stars, Oddities

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• ...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Stars, Night, Sun

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• It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.

  Alison Croggon

  Heart, Defeat, Ends

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• The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Tired, World, Splendor

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