Darkness Quotes - Page 7

• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Order, Exhausted, Turns

  Letter to Farkas Bolyai, September 2, 1808.

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• If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Religious, Book

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• Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Memories, Writing, Character

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Light, Two

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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• I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

  Martin Gore

  Velvet, Sides, Pops

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• I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

  Little Richard

  Light, People, Trying

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• But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Knows

  "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

  Marc Maron

  Heart, School, Thinking

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  Sam Francis

  Light, Giving, Increase

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• Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 20, 2013

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• The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

  Elias Canetti

  Unexpected, Crime, Clutch

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Book, Heart, Use

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• 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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Movie, Home, Two

  The Outsiders ch. 1 (1967)

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• Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart Of Darkness, Trifles, Knows

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• 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.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Light, Lamps

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• The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

  Tim LaHaye

  People, Forever, Casts

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• You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

  Robert Plant

  Years, Stadiums, Feels

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• It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Writing, Discovery

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• Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Driven, Light And Dark

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• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Hope, Light

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

  Robert Alden

  Sad, Appreciation, Light

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• Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

  Ross Turnbull

  Beautiful, Spring, Light

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• 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

  Happiness, Anger, Sadness

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• The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

  Plato

  Spiritual, Country, Dark

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