“Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to… — William Law Copy Share Image
“That was the secret of the salvation he brought, that was the light he shone into the darkness; and that was why… — M.C. Frank Copy Share Image
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you.… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive,… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the… — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You got lucky with the moon. Tonight there won't be one, or it'll be so new that you'll still have all the… — Michael Jarvis Copy Share Image
“Transmutation: • Grapes must be crushed to make wine • Diamonds form under pressure • Olives are pressed to release oil •… — Lalah Delia Copy Share Image
We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine, while the milky white jasmine will open their slender… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
“Looking upwards, she speculates still more ambitiously upon the nature of the moon, and if the stars are blazing jellies; looking downwards… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“A heart filled with light will always be in the middle of darkness. But, once it shines more brightly, there's nothing to… — Y.K. Raikou Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the darkness of loss, I found light. Admittedly, in those first weeks, it might have been but a… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
“Evening was her special time of day. She gave the world three syllables and indeed I think she liked it so well… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
“I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness-- that the darkness flung me-- is worthless as ignorance: nothing… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more incendiary to an ill-advised, unanticipated tryst than to be enclosed in a darkened, plush-upholstered, moving chamber. Privacy, Intimacy, Darkness,… — John MacLachlan Gray Copy Share Image
“But that's life. One long tunnel. There are lights along the way. Sometimes they feel spread farther apart than others, but they're… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Of course," he added, addressing the darkness all around, "even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I… — Mary Johnston Copy Share Image
God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because… — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
The truth is that our only safety, our only security, our only hope is to hold fast to that which is good.… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it’s the very presence of one thing – light or darkness – that necessitates… — jessica shirvington Copy Share Image