Darkening Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues…
— Herman Bavinck
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one…
— George Eliot
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we…
— Salman Rushdie
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The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
— Theodor Adorno
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If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way.…
— John of Kronstadt
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While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.
— Ani DiFranco
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It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the…
— Travis Walton
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Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
— Boyle Roche
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
— Gregory Maguire
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The…
— Annie Dillard
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Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was…
— Mark Doty
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid…
— Pablo Neruda
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If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the…
— Pablo Neruda
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching…
— Richard Brautigan
Who Wrote These Darkening Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 33 Darkening Quotes, led by these top contributors: