- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Darkness Quotes
Most Famous Darkness Quotes of All Time!
Darkness in this collection isn't only literal - it's the chaos lurking just beneath civilization's surface, and the harder emotional territory people find themselves drawn to explore in their early twenties. There's a certain fascination running through these lines, a theme also touched on in our Lost quotes.
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
- Good Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.
- Firmament
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
Others frame darkness as something to actively stand against, a spiritual struggle requiring resolve rather than resignation. Whatever form it takes, these reflections sit well alongside our Silence and Pain collections.