Appearance Quote by W. S. Merwin Download Open image “Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.” — W. S. Merwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appearance Darkness Firsts Laughter Light Shapes
There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness. — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His laughter, which was never far below the surface of his conversation, now sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. — Joseph Lelyveld Copy Share Image
There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping. — Ibn Sirin Copy Share Image
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly. — Emily Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
In a sense, much that is learned is bound to be bad habits. You're always beginning again. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time... it is a kind of joy in being alive in… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You can have a nice body, dress with the latest fashion. But if you don't have self-confidence sweetheart, forget about looking sexy, you can't… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Appearance records are pretty special. Mine means a lot to me, not only because I love stats, but because it shows that I am… — David James Copy Share Image
