Quotes with darkness

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  • Bernard Malamud There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bell Hooks There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • William Shakespeare There is no darkness, but ignorance.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Volkov There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
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  • Samuel Johnson To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of Uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
    Works (1787)
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Herbert Spencer Virtue gives herself light through darkness for to wade.
    The Faerie Queene (1590) 1, 12
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • John Ruskin We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Merton We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Anish Kapoor What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Edward Teller When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
    Edward Teller
    American physicist (1908 - 2003)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jean Paul Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bret Harte Your voices break and falter in the darkness, — Break, falter, and are still.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Helen Keller My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • William Blake Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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