Darkness Quotes
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Light works most effectively in darkness.
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Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
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The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
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There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.
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I thought you'd have learned by now. I'm going to stay by you until the sun and the moon and the stars spin down into darkness and dust.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
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The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
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It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.
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Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is.
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What darkness to you is light to me.
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The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.
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You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty
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A biblical theology of persecution creates a framework for understanding God’s sovereign purpose in allowing the evil dominions of darkness to inflict suffering on His children.
