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Darkness Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse…
- To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds…
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
- As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to…
- Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted…
- As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
- Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown…
- All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable…
- Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. Its like the tide going out, revealing whatevers been thrown…
More Darkness Quotes
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching… — Kevin Bacon
- You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
- No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have… — Annie Besant
- Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom
- Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom… — Emily Bronte
- I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic,… — Nicolas Cage
- Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. — Julia Cameron