There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth,… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
All those promises Unfulfilled dreams They all left with you Nothing is left here except Grey skies, dying trees Poor disabled time… — Nick Kler Copy Share Image
“he recounted how he had laid his fears to rest one night in what was "undoubtedly the most heroic event of my… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We are Darkness. We are Shadow. We are the Ruler of the Night. We, alone, stand between mankind and those who would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“My love for darkness is.. Yes, but you won't understand, I am mad for darkness, yes really But no one can understand..… — Isha Anand Copy Share Image
...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Before I left the house I put my head into the boys' bedroom. The room was cool but the children seemed to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“The evening with its lamps burning The night with its head in its hands The early morning I look back at the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Their eyes wide open, they stared into empty nothingness. There was silence everywhere. Apart from a few twinkling of stars, masses of… — Mehreen Ahmed Copy Share Image
“Wilhelmine chatted on, chatted as if emboldened by the gathering dusk. She wasn't afraid any more. She didn't blush any more. And… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
“The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the… — Robyn Young Copy Share Image
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Victor’s foot kicked against something which bounced away into the darkness. “What was it?” he quavered. Gaspode snuffled off into the darkness,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil,… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
“Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The church needs to arise not just against total and absolute ignorance, the church also needs to arise against half-truth or falsehood,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We're always trying to avoid being in the darkness, not knowing, and also encountering animals. There's something about them not wanting to… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle in your own heart. Say to God, “If you will give me a vision… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Did you ever notice? Darkness seems to make people speak in short sentences. “YES,” she said. “And when the lights come on,… — Don Dellillo Copy Share Image
“And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course, and baby carriage… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“But there is something very strange and terrible in being awake when all the rest of the world is asleep. You are… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“This was the last time I ever saw my mother alive. Just the same, this picture gets all mixed up in my… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known. It was almost like being born again. The… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“You are a chosen [woman], a royal [priest], a holy [daughter], God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him… — Renee Swope Copy Share Image
“Through the door at the end of the hall, Bushrod could see daylight. Gray and sullen it was, but daylight all the… — Howard Bahr Copy Share Image
“It's one of those winter nights when the darkness is so thick it's as if the whole area has been dipped head… — Fredrick Backman Copy Share Image