Dark Room Quotes

• My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.

  Beetlejuice

  Dark, Rooms, Life Is

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  Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  Gary Busey

  Dark, Devil, Rooms

  "I'm with Busey". www.imdb.com. (2003 - ).

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• When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Dark, Light, Sitting

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• The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

  Confucius

  Cat, Dark, Black

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• An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

  Eric Cantona

  Dark, Artist, Light

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• If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dark, Light, Trying

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• We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

  Joan Ryan

  Dark, Thinking, Rooms

  Joan Ryan (2009). “The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dark, Rooms, Lovers

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  If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Flower, Dark

  Song: Poetic Justice, 2012

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• Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

  Aftab Alam

  Hope, Dark, Light

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• Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.

  Antony Sher

  Reading, Dark, Reflection

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Dream, Wall, Dark

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “Carmilla”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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• God does not play dice [with the universe].
  [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

  Albert Einstein

  God, Play, Gambling

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• If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

  Lawrence Block

  Lying, Writing, Dark

  Lawrence Block (1985). “Writing the Novel from Plot to Print”, Writers Digest Books

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• If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

  Chael Sonnen

  Nice, Dark, Relax

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.

  Zicheng Hong

  Dark, Blue, Sky

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• A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

  David A. Bednar

  Dark, Light, Receiving

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• We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

  Minor White

  Photography, Dark, Rooms

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• When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Bible, Christian, Book

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.476

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• Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

  Esi Edugyan

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• ...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Taken, Dark

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• It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

  Vernon Howard

  Mistake, Creativity, Dark

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• Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Writing, Dark, Mind

  Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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• I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

  Horatio Nelson

  Love, Dark, Feelings

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