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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.
- Light
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
- Down
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No one is born a terrorist, but the route to become one is surprisingly easy. We need to listen to those who have been there, and those who have made their way back, if we want to stop others from taking their first steps down this same path into darkness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too... expected.
- People
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People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
- Passion
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Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids' books all have a darkness to them.
- Children
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I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every film I do is going to be like 'Selma,' but every film I do can be edifying, can be something that points toward I believe to be true. I'm not one to shy away from darkness in movies as long as there is light.
- Humanity
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The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
- Disintegration
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I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.
- Early Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
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.