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Darkness Quotes
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
32
"This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters."
19
"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
17
"Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch."
11
"For we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to."
8
"To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together."
8
"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
7
"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
7
"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
6
"Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere."
6
"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
6
"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."
5
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
5
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
5
"It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself."
5
"But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been."
5
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
4
"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
4
"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you."
4
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
4
"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
4
"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth."
4
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
3
"I will see you again,' Hades promised. 'I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.' 'Now I can't tell if you're joking.' Hades's eyes glittered as his form began to fade. 'Then perhaps we are alike in some important ways.' The god vanished."
3
"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
3
"Deep darkness enhances the brightness and beauty of a little lamp."
3
"Nico remembered something Jason Grace had told him in the palace of Notus: Maybe it's time you come out of the shadows. If only I could, he thought. For the first time in his life, he had begun to fear the dark, because he might melt into it permanently."
3
"Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening. Now."
3
"Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image."
3
"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."
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