Victor Hugo Quotes
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
-
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
-
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
-
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
-
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
-
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
-
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
-
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
-
I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.
-
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
-
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
-
There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.
-
I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
-
I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
-
I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
-
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
-
Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
-
We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
-
I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.
-
The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.
-
I had some really early recordings when I was 16 or 17. I was rapping over jungle beats with my friends. We used to do pirate radio stations in my area, down near Brighton. They were pretty terrible.
-
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
