Quotes with darkness

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  • Miguel de Unamuno Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Faith Baldwin Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
    you got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
    Stealing Fire (1984) Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Track 1
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Callimachus O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
    Epigrams Epigram 14; translation from J. W. Mackail (ed.) S
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Marianne Williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
    A Return To Love
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bai Ling Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Jean Paul The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Berger The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • William Shakespeare The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Nikos Kazantzakis The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    Greek writer (1883 - 1957)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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