Top 1200 Darkness Inside Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.

And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just...real. And who were we? There was something spinning wickedly out of control inside this house. It was like seeing inside the Baker's world had opened up windows into our own, and the view was not a pretty one. Where had all this stuff come from? And why hadn't I ever seen it before.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.

A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head.

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

I have a box inside me now that never used to exist. I never needed it before. It's down in my deepest, darkest corner, and it's airtight, soundproofed and padlocked. It's where I keep the thoughts I don't know what to do with, that could get me into trouble. Eating Unseelie hammers on the inside of that lid incessantly. I try to keep kissing Barrons in that box, too, but it gets out sometimes.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There-you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people.

Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.

Darkness is important. If you were having fun all the time, you wouldn't know what dark is.

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right!

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.

Rain symbolizes darkness but also represents an essential part of rebirth.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.