Darkness Quotes
3024 Darkness quotes by 1686 unique authors
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One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
— Tilopa
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the…
— Alexander Pope
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study…
— Takeda Nobushige
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Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was…
— Alexander MacLaren
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The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of…
— Oswald Chambers
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
— Marcel Proust
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by…
— Victor Hugo
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No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.
— Wes Fesler
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Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink…
— Kristi Yamaguchi
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at…
— Patricia Cornwell
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I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.
— Frank D. Gilroy
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it…
— John Milton
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When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;
— Edward Lear
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We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes…
— Herman Bavinck
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If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded
— Charles Hodge
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the…
— Unknown Author
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion.…
— Unknown Author
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Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel....
— Meher Baba
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We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That…
— Phillips Brooks
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So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to…
— Phillips Brooks
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We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That…
— Phillips Brooks
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