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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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'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.
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That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
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You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
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Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
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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.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.
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In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.
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It's good to explore your darkness.
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One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.
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If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In this damn world, it's all or nothing.
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.