darkness quotes

• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. (Vladimir Nabokov) [light/darkness]
• There is no darkness but ignorance. (William Shakespeare) [darkness/ignorance]
• The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. (Henry Ward Beecher) [quality/human/darkness/light]
• Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. (William Blake) [nature/darkness/men/night]
• It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ( Confucius) [light/darkness]
• Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. (Marguerite Duras) [words/night/darkness/day]
• I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. (Havelock Ellis) [feeling/angel/darkness/fight]
• The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff... (James Ellroy) [darkness/perversion/people]
• See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [darkness/remember/shame]
• In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. (Victor Hugo) [men/light/darkness/demand]
• 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) [darkness/light/intelligence]
• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ( Laozi) [darkness/darkness/understanding]
• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ( Laozi) [darkness/darkness/understanding]
• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [night/speak/darkness/life]
• The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity. (Martin Luther) [darkness/darkness/ignorance/ignorance]
• Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. (Iris Murdoch) [darkness/imagination]
• Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. ( Ovid) [night/darkness]
• Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all. (Alexander Pope) [chaos/darkness]
• 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) [being/darkness/measure/stability]
• Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating. (John Ruskin) [evil/nature/darkness]
• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. (William Shakespeare) [god/light/darkness]
• There is no darkness, but ignorance. (William Shakespeare) [darkness/ignorance]
• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. (Henry David Thoreau) [knowledge/darkness/ignorance]
• Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. (Henry David Thoreau) [humility/darkness]
• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. (Henry David Thoreau) [light/eyes/darkness/day]
• In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. (Janet Jackson) [darkness/knowledge/wisdom/eyes]
• I'm not somebody who believes that darkness is something that should necessarily be hidden from children or anything like that. (Crispin Glover) [darkness]
• You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come. (Harrison Ford) [darkness]
• If you went into a 40,000-foot warehouse, even if you just light a match the match pierces the darkness. It pierces even in the vast amount of darkness. As I see it, the movie is a light, it is a match. (James Caviezel) [light/darkness/amount/darkness]
• Tim and I have known each other for 15 years, so when we go back to doing a film every few years, it's like going home again. He walks this fine line between darkness and comedy like nobody else. (Johnny Depp) [film/housing/darkness]
• I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. (Kevin Bacon) [think/darkness/sadness]

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