Top 1200 Darkness Before The Dawn Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

There is no light for those who do not know darkness.

I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?

It's good to explore your darkness.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

I've got a lot of darkness in me.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not

Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.

You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.

My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.

God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

The greater the darkness, the better the drama.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

You'll never find light by analyzing the darkness.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

With all the strength of my soul, I testify that God lives, that His Beloved Son is the firstfruits of the Resurrection, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light that makes of every hopeless dawn a joyful morning.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Say to the darkness, "We beg to differ!"

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.