Darkness Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville Download Open image “When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” — Alexis de Tocqueville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darkness Past Religion Spirit Time Walks
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present. — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Darkness comes, but it is only passing, as the light of the soul can never be overcome. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“When you walk in the light, all the darkness around you shall disappear.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Darkness is the past, the past is forgotten, and the forgotten is erased.” — Dominic Minguzzi Copy Share Image
“When darkness is brought to the light it is erased and becomes the light.” — Dominic Minguzzi Copy Share Image
The whispers of the past are nothing but the smoke of a candle, waiting to be relit, for the essense of the same fire… — Matthew McPherson Copy Share Image
Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What does he look like? The question was soft- tentative. I knew who he meant. I interlaced my fingers through Rhysand's and squeezed tightly.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
