Darkness Quotes
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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.
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Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.
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Often what I need is even a darker darkness.
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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
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With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
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O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
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We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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Well, I guess that when you found yourself in the dark, you might as well whistle. It wasn't always going to be morning, and darkness would come around again. The sun would rise, and then the sun would set. And there you were in the darkness again. If you didn't whistle, the quiet and the dark would swallow you up.
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Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.
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Woods in the predawn darkness, the silence only broken by the sloshing of his flask.
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But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness.
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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
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If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
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Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique ‘insights' happen in the dark
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... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.
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In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.
