Darkening Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

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
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
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
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
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Theodor Adorno
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
He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. — Thomas Jefferson
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
While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized. — Ani DiFranco
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a largeÂ glowing object hovering in the… — Travis Walton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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