Darkness Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image ““What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?”” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darkness
“Vanity occurs when we think we are invincible. Death occurs to tell us we are not.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“There seemed to be no end to the imaginative damage people could do to each other when the influences of societal pressures were removed.… — Steve R. Yeager Copy Share Image
“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“He tries to overcome the darkness of untruthfulness that impedes his liveliness and energy.” — Cornelius Wencel Copy Share Image
“Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He may have to bring us to the sad realization that everything we have done apart from him is vanity,” — Russell M. Stendal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal 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
