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Fear hides in darkness, bravery only shines when exposed to light
Author:
Sophia Parker
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Inspiration can be found in the darkest of places, where the light of hope shines the brightest.
Author:
Emily Bronte
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but it's the ones taken in the dark that test your determination the most.
Author:
Sophia Tran
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Bring light to the darkest corners of the mind and watch as even monsters turn into mere shadows.
Author:
Dahlia Montgomery
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Wisdom is the light that guides us through the darkest nights.
Author:
Olivia Williams
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The most beautiful creations often stem from the darkest places within us.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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Even the smallest light can pierce through the darkest of nights.
Author:
Eliza White
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A beautiful soul is like a star; it shines brightest in the darkest of nights.
Author:
Samantha Scott
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Embrace the unknown, for it is in darkness that the stars shine brightest.
Author:
Serena Sanders
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Challenge yourself to bloom in the midst of darkness, for even a single flicker of light can illuminate the way.
Author:
Jasmine Daniels
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Like a blazing sun, courage shines brightest against the darkness.
Author:
Serena Chen
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Hope is the soul's guardian in times of darkness.
Author:
Alessandra Delgado
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Navigating the darkness allows us to appreciate the light in its fullest brilliance.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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Embrace the darkness, for that is where you will find strength to illuminate the world.
Author:
Ava Barnes
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Light shines brightest on the darkest hearts.
Author:
Aurora Knight
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Even in darkness, stars can still shine brightly amidst the night.
Author:
Stella Blackwood
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Wisdom is the slow burn that lights the way through darkness.
Author:
Sophie Thompson
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In the darkest of times, it is our own light that guides us through the tunnel of uncertainty.
Author:
Sophia Clarke
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Even in the darkest of times, let your inner light guide you to the road less traveled.
Author:
Samantha Carter
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The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
Author:
Sophia Miller
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The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.
Author:
Elizabeth Smith
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Embrace the shadows, for they hold the secrets of the light.
Author:
Serena Chen
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Do not be afraid to let your light shine bright for the world to see, for it is in darkness that we appreciate the beauty of light.
Author:
Sophia Campbell
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It is in darkness that light shines brightest.
Author:
Alexandra West
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The brightest flame casts the longest shadow.
Author:
Lyanna Stark
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Wisdom is the light that guides us through the darkest of times.
Author:
Amara Patel
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Be not afraid of the shadows that hide within, for it is within the darkness that true light shines brightest.
Author:
Jasmine Knight
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If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Author:
Morris West
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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.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
Author:
Alexander Volkov
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
Author:
Ernst Toller
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
Author:
James Thurber
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Author:
Junichiro Tanizaki
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Author:
Ali Talib
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Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
Author:
John Strachan
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In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
Author:
Peter Steele
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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.
Author:
Dave Sim
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Author:
Robert Schumann
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Author:
May Sarton
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Author:
John Ruskin
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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.
Author:
Richard Roxburgh
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.
Author:
Jason Ritter
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I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.
Author:
Little Richard
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There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Author:
Alain Resnais
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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
Author:
Erich Remarque
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There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Author:
Pythagoras
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Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Author:
Terry Pratchett
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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Author:
Terry Pratchett
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Author:
Robert Plant
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Author:
Jean Paul
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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Author:
Coventry Patmore
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Author:
Boris Pasternak
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Author:
Ovid
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It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
Author:
George Nathan
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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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.
Author:
Hannah More
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And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
Author:
Giovanni Mirandola
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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
Author:
John Milton
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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.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Author:
Marshall McLuhan
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If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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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.
Author:
David McKay
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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Author:
Reba McEntire
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
Author:
W. Maugham
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
Author:
Walter Martin
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From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Author:
Charles Manson
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Author:
Og Mandino
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I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.
Author:
William Manchester
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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.
Author:
James Madison
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But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
Author:
John Locke
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Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Author:
Mary Lincoln
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The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
Author:
Thomas Kyd
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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.
Author:
William Kunstler
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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Author:
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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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.
Author:
Henry Knox
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.
Author:
Francis Key
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Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
Author:
Mark Kennedy
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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.
Author:
Helen Keller
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Author:
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Author:
Yousuf Karsh
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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Author:
Carl Jung
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
Author:
Wynonna Judd
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Author:
Janet Jackson
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Author:
Horace
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
Author:
S. Hinton
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As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Author:
Bill Hicks
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Author:
Frank Herbert
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Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
Author:
Francis Head
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
Author:
Lasse Hallstrom
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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
Author:
Martin Gore
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See you in the darkness.
Author:
Gary Gilmore
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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Author:
Geronimo
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Author:
Jean Genet
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Author:
Caspar Friedrich
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I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
Author:
Brendan Fraser
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Author:
Sam Francis
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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.
Author:
Janet Frame
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I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
Author:
George Fox
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Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
Author:
Gene Fowler
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Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.
Author:
Bobby Farrelly
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
Author:
Linda Ellerbee
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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.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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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.
Author:
Meister Eckhart
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Author:
Marguerite Duras
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Author:
Patricia Cornwell
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When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.
Author:
Francis Coppola
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Author:
Edwin Chapin
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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.
Author:
Hodding Carter
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
Author:
Elias Canetti
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I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.
Author:
David Bromstad
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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.
Author:
Harold Brodkey
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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
Author:
Edwin Booth
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Author:
Allan Bloom
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I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.
Author:
Tom Baker
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
Author:
Kevin Bacon
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Author:
Edward Abbey
